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.

History repeats itself. that's one of the things wrong with history

Nothingso completely baffles one who is full of trick and duplicity himself, thanstraightforward and simple integrity in another.

No doctor is a good doctor who has never been ill himself.

Conflict is neither good nor bad. Properly managed, it is absolutely vital.

Remembernot only to say the right thing in the right place, but far more difficultstill, to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment.

Thisduality has been reflected in classical as well as modern literature asreason versus passion, or mind versus intuition. The split between the ‘conscious’mind and the ‘unconscious.’ There are moments in each of ourlives when our verbal-intellect sugges

The aimof argument, or of discussion, should not be victory, but progress.

The hearthas arguments with which the logic of mind is not acquainted.

There is nobody so irritating as somebody with less intelligence and more sense than we have.

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