He who asks questions cannot avoid the answers.

Even a fish wouldn't get into trouble if it kept its mouth shut.

The laws of life are founded on necessity, its charms on the non-essentials.

God made time, but man made haste.

All your fingernails grow with no convenient speed except broken one.

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 man who says he's too old to learn new tricks probably always was.

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.

Power is not revealed by striking hard or often, but bystriking true.

The desire of appearing clever often prevents our becoming so.

If Ihad six hours to chop down a tree, I'd spend the first hour sharpening the ax.

Suspicion begets suspicion.