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

Wisdomis what you get for a lifetime of listening when you'd have preferred totalk.

Peoplewho can't admit they are part of the problem, will never be part of itssolution.

Talk back to your internal critic. Train yourself to recognize and write downcritical thoughts as they go through your mind. Learn why these thoughts areuntrue and practice talking and writing back to them.

You've gotto know when to hold 'em, know when to fold 'em know, when to walk away, knowwhen to run.

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.

A slyrabbit will have three openings to its den.

The greatest humiliation in life is to work hard on something from which you expect great appreciation, and then fail to get.

Nature arms each man with some faculty which enables himto do easily some feat impossible to any other.

Nothing makes it easier to resist temptation than a proper upbringing, a sound set of values.

A goodlistener is not someone with nothing to say. A good listener is a good talkerwith a sore throat.

Remembernot only to say the right thing in the right place, but far more difficultstill, to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment.