Don'tconsider your reputation and you may do anything you like.

Imagination is useful as long as it remains practical.

Pleasure is by no means an infallible critical guide, but it is the least fallible.

We donot have to agree; we do need to understand.

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

Zeal is fit only for wise men but is found mostly infools.

As we grow old...the beauty steals inwards.

To be preparedis half the victory.

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

Every kind of peaceful cooperation among men is primarily basedon mutual trust and only secondarily on institutions such as courts ofjustice and police.

Peoplewho are too concerned with how well they are doing will be less successfuland feel less competent than those who focus on the task itself... Somepsychologists call it a conflict between egoorientation,or between extrinsic and intrinsic motivation…

Our power is in our ability to decide.