Every village has to become a self-sufficient republic.

Icannot divine how it happens that the man who knows the least is the mostargumentative.

To have a respect for ourselves guides our morals; to have a deference for others governs our manners.

Superioty and inferiority are individual, not racial or national.

Given afair wind, we will negotiate our way into the Common Market, head held high,not crawling in. Negotiations? Yes. Unconditional acceptance of whateverterms are offered us? No.

The Truly free man is one who know how to decline an invitation without giving an excuse.

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

Ittakes nine months to have a baby, no matter how many people you put on thejob.

Itisn't that they can't see the solution. It's that they can't see the problem.

Knowingthat everything's futile but still fighting, still raging against the dying ofthe light that's what motivates me all the time ... If you hold that sense offutility in your head for too long, it can begin to eat into you. You canstill be aware of it

The larger the island of knowledge, the longer the shoreline of wonder.

Children are like wet cement. Whatever falls on them makes an impression.