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

Don't consideryour reputation and you may do anything you like.

Thewill to win is worthless if you do not have the will to prepare.
Beforeyou build a better mousetrap, make sure you have some mice out there.

Makesure you leave some fat for the other side.

Diseases are Tax on the pleasure.

Patriotism is not a short and frenzied outbrust of emotion but the tranquil and steady dedication of a lifetime.

If a man speaks or acts with pure thought, happiness follows him like a shadow that never leaves him

So longas a man is angry he cannot be in the right.

Take yourlife into your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing, no one toblame.

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.

Men are mortal, but ideas are immortal.

Concentrated power is not rendered harmless by the goodintentions of those who create it.