A gem is not polished without rubbing, nor is a man perfected without trials.

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

Trust only movement. Life happens at the level of events, notof words. Trust movement.

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.

If you could kick the person in the pants responsible for most of your trouble, youwouldn't sit for a month.

To like and dislike the same thing, that is, indeed, friendship.

Toevery answer you can find a new question.

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.

The evolution from happiness to habit is one of death's best weapons.

Our faults irritate us most when we see them in others.

The basic building block of good communications is the feeling that every humanbeing is unique and of value.

A miserand a liar bargain quickly.