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

Talkingjaw-jaw is always better than war-war.

Whenanger comes, wisdom goes.

Never play cat and mouse games if you are a mouse.

Man alone contains within himself as many species as exist on earth.

Somewherethere is a map of how it can be done.

Aperson whose heart is not content is like a snake which tries to swallow anelephant.

Never answer a letter while you are angry.

The spokenword belongs half to him who speaks, and half to him who listens.

Ability is poor men's wealth

Every age thinks its battle the most important of all.

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.