If power is for sale, sell your mother to buy it. You canalways buy her back again.

Truth is strengthened by observation and delay, falsehood by haste and uncertainity.

Arbitrary power is like most other things which are veryhard, very liable to be broken.

Constantrepetition carries conviction.

Much learning does not teach understanding.

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

Ignorancedoesn't kill you, but it does make you sweat a lot.

There is much more learning than knowing in the world.

Tofight fear, act. To increase fear wait, put off, postpone.

Any general statement is like a cheque drawn on a bank. Its value depends on what is there to meet it.

Whendealing with people, remember you are not dealing with creatures of logic,but creatures of emotion.

When makinga decision of minor importance, I have always found it advantageous toconsider all the pros and cons. In vital matters, however, such as the choiceof a mate or a profession, the decision should come from the unconscious,from somewhere within ou