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

A status symbol is an instrument you clash when you want someone to know you are there.

A perfect method for adding drama to life is to wait until the deadline looms large.

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

It ishard to change our point of view in a conflict. Most often, it is because weare not nearly as interested in resolving the conflict and possibly creatinga new ‘pearl’ as we are in being right.

There isnothing so disagreeable, that a patient mind cannot find some solace for it.

Informationis a negotiator's greatest weapon.

Imagination is useful as long as it remains practical.

Misfortuneis not that which can be avoided, but that which cannot.

I think we may safely trust a good deal more than we do.

Far better to think historically, to remember the lessonsof the past. Thus, far better to conceive of power as consisting in part ofthe knowledge of when not to use all the power you have. Far better to be onewho knows that if you reserve the power not to

A life makingmistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doingnothing at all.