The soul would have no rainbow, if the eyes had no tears.

People loan their trust, they don't give it.

Health and Cheerfulness mutually begets each other.

Conflictisn't negative, it just is.

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

Thereare no secrets. There is no mystery. There is only common sense.

I give myself,sometimes, admirable advice, but I am incapable of taking it.

The highest proof of virtue is to possess boundless powerwithout abusing it.

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.

He whocannot agree with his enemies is controlled by them.

A peace which depends upon fear is nothing but a suppressed war.

Those who trust us educate us.