Theultimate test of a relationship is to disagree but hold hands.

I hope our wisdom will grow with our power, and teach us,that the less we use our power the greater it will be.

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

Keepthings informal. Talking is the natural way to do business. Writing is greatfor keeping records and putting down details, but talk generates ideas. Greatthings come from our luncheon meetings which consist of a sandwich, a cup ofsoup, and a good idea

Let not thy will roar, when the power can but whisper.

Ifyou wish to make a man your enemy, tell him simply, 'You are wrong.' Thismethod works every time.

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

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.

Never[enter] into dispute or argument with another. I never yet saw an instance ofone of two disputants convincing the other by argument. I have seen many ontheir getting warm, becoming rude and shooting one another.

Thetorment of human frustration, whatever its immediate cause,is the knowledge that the self is in prison, its vital force and ‘mangledmind’ leaking away in lonely, wasteful self-conflict.

Manners are the hypocrisy of a nation.

The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends upon the unreasonable man.