Muchtalking is the cause of danger. Silence is the means of avoiding misfortune.The talkative parrot is shut up in a cage. Other birds, without speech, flyfreely about.

What dowe live for, if it is not to make life less difficult for each other.

You can have power over people as long as you don't takeeverything away from them. But when you've robbed a man of everything, he'sno longer in your power.

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

Well-managed,cooperative conflict contributes to the productivity and innovativeness oforganizations and the competence and well-being of people.

Ifanyone is not willing to accept your point of view, try to see his point of view.

Everyone speaks well of his heart, but no one dares to say it of his dead.

Imagination grows by excercise and in more powerful in the mature rather than in the young.

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

If wecannot end our differences at least we can make the world safe for diversity.

The greatest virtue of man is perhaps curiosity.

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.