Surprise is the greatest gift which life can grant us.

Always the dullness of the fool is the whetstone of the wits

A danger forseen is half avoided.

Without trust, words become the hollow sound of a woodengong. With trust, words become life itself.

A peace which depends upon fear is nothing but a suppressed war.

Nature arms each man with some faculty which enables himto do easily some feat impossible to any other.

Have adialogue between the two opposing parts and you will find that they alwaysstart out fighting each other until we come to an appreciation of difference... a oneness and integration of the two opposingforces. Then the civil war is finished, and your e

Almost all of our relationships begin and most of them continue as forms of mutual exploitation, a mental or physical barter, to be terminated when one or both parties run out of goods.

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

The function of genius is to furnish cretins with ideas twenty year later.

The prevalent fear of poverty among the educated classes is the worst moral disease from which our civilization suffers.

He approaches nearest to the gods who knows how to be silent, even though he is in the right.