Example is better than following it.

Humor is the affectionate communication of insight.

Much learning does not teach understanding.

If you truly want honesty, don't ask questions you don't really want the answer 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.

Thereward for always listening when you'd rather be talking is wisdom.

Learning is the property of those who fear to do disagreeable things.

Themost important thing in communication is to hear what isn't being said.

Thegreatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are right sometimes.

Though patience be a tired mare, yet she will plod.

The exercise of power is determined by thousands ofinteractions between the world of the powerful and that of the powerless, allthe more so because these worlds are never divided by a sharp line: everyonehas a small part of himself in both.

There are three ways of bearing ills of life: by indifference, by philosophy, and by religion.