Ifyou wish to make a man your enemy, tell him simply, 'You are wrong.' Thismethod works every time.

Learning, the destroyer of arrogance, begets arrogance in fools, even as light that illumines the eye, makes owls blind.

Many a gem of wisdom have gone unsaid, because someone lacked ability to express it.

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

Onehour of thoughtful solitude may nerve the heart for days of conflict girdingup its armor to meet the most insidious foe.

Girls .. . were allowed to play in the house . . . and boys were sent outdoors. . .Boys ran around in the yard with toy guns going kksshh-kksshh,fighting wars for made-up reasons and arguing about whowas dead, while girls stayed inside and played with dol

The fundamental concept in social science is Power, in thesame sense in which Energy is the fundamental concept in physics.

Tofight and conquer in all your battles is not supreme excellence; supremeexcellence consists in breaking the enemy's resistance without fighting.

It's whenyou're safe at home that you wish you were having an adventure. When you'rehaving an adventure you wish you were safe at home.

A goodpreparation takes longer than the delivery.

Thepeople to fear are not those who disagree with you, but those who disagreewith you and are too cowardly to let you know.

The cause of liberty becomes a mockery if the price to be paid is the wholesale destruction of those who are to enjoy liberty.