When makinga decision of minor importance, I have always found it advantageous toconsider all the pros and cons. In vital matters, however, such as the choiceof a mate or a profession, the decision should come from the unconscious,from somewhere within ou

My greenthumb came only as a result of the mistakes I made while learning to seethings from the plant's point of view.

Worry is a circle of inefficient thoughts whirling about a point of fear.

The art of life is the avoiding of pain.

Life is progress from want to want, not from enjoyment to enjoyment.

The surest way to remain poor is to be an honest man.

Prayrer changes things by changing people.

It is a good reader that makes a good book.

We do not err because the truth is difficult to see. We err because this is more comfortable

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.

Books without the knowledge of life are useless.

Nothing makes it easier to resist temptation than a proper upbringing, a sound set of values.