If youcould kick the person in the pants responsible for most of your trouble, youwouldn't sit for a month.

Kind words do not cost much. Yet they accomplish much.

Thetorment of human frustration, whatever its immediate cause,is the knowledge that the self is in prison, its vital force and ‘mangledmind’ leaking away in lonely, wasteful self-conflict.

Everything has been thought of before, but the difficulty is to think of it again

Far better to think historically, to remember the lessonsof the past. Thus, far better to conceive of power as consisting in part ofthe knowledge of when not to use all the power you have. Far better to be onewho knows that if you reserve the power not to

My green thumb came only as a result of the mistakes I made while learning tosee things from the plant's point of view.

Nothing astonishes men so much as common sense and plain dealing.

If you ain't never pick up the sword,you ain't never have to worry about fallin' on it.

The property of power is to protect.

Superioty and inferiority are individual, not racial or national.

Humour is a hole that lets the sawdust out of a stuffed shirt.

Who digs a pit for others will fall in themselves.