The tormentof human frustration, whatever its immediate cause, is the knowledge that theself is in prison, its vital force and ‘mangled mind’ leaking away in lonely,wasteful self-conflict.

Icannot give you a formula for success, but I can give you the formula forfailure: Try to please everyone.

Forbidden fruit can get us into a real jam.

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

It is easier to discover deficiencies in indivuduals, states and providence than to see their real import and value.

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

As long as there is life there is danger.

Relationships of trust depend on our willingness to looknot only to our own interests, but also the interests of others.

Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood.

Thetruth is that our finest moments are most likely to occur when we are feelingdeeply uncomfortable, unhappy, or unfulfilled. For it is only in suchmoments, propelled by our discomfort, that we are likely to step out of ourruts and start searching for di

The work of an unknown good man is like a vein of water flow hidden underground, secretly making the ground greener.

There is all the difference in the world between having something to say and havingto say something.