Few things help an individual more than to placeresponsibility upon him, and to let him know that you trust him.

Resolvingconflict is rarely about who is right. It is about acknowledgment andappreciation of differences.

It isgreed to do all the talking but not to want to listen at all.

Philosophy may describe unreason, as it may describe force; it cannot hope to refute them.

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

You can be erudite with knowledge of others; you can be wise only with your wisdom.

To be spiritual is not to reject reason but to go beyond it.

A man who doesn't trust himself can never really trust anyoneelse.

Takeadvantage of the ambiguity in the world. Look at something and think aboutwhat else it might be.

Whenyou're at the edge of a cliff, sometimes progress is a step backwards.

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.

Bythree methods we may learn wisdom: first, by reflection, which is noblest;second, imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is thebitterest.