A man without patience is a lamp without oil.

The Universe is not only queerer that we imagine, it is queered than we can imagine.

Suffer fools gladly, they might be right.

We owealmost all our knowledge not to those who have agreed but to those who havediffered.

Undernormal conditions, most people tend to see what they want to see, hear what theywant to hear, and do what they want to do; in conflicts, their positionsbecome even more rigid and fixed.

Standingin the middle of the road is very dangerous; you get knocked down by thetraffic from both sides.

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

Thetruth is that our finest moments are most likely to occur when we are feelingdeeply uncomfortable, unhappy, or unfulfilled. For it is only in suchmoments, propelled by our discomfort, that we are likely to step out of ourruts and start searching for di

Am Inot destroying my enemies when I make friends of them?

A book is a mirror; if an ass peers into it, you can't expect an apostle to peer out.

The fibers of all things have their tension and are strainedlike the strings of an instrument.

Ideal society is a drama enacted exclusively in the imagination