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

Sometimes the man of action is the fellow who has just got both his feat in hot water.

Conflictleads to less-than-adequate performance, resentments, and lack of motivation.

All thingsat first appear difficult.

A happy home is one in which each spouse grants the possiblility that the other may be right, though neither believes it.

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

The hearthas arguments with which the logic of mind is not acquainted.

Optimists and pessimists have one fault in common: they are afraid of the truth.

Frustration is commonly the difference between what you would like to be and what you are willing to become what you would like to be.

Happinessis the only sanction of life; where happiness fails, existence remains a madand lamentable experiment.

Everything comes gradually and at its appointed hour.

People who do not believe in miracles are not realist.