Constant repetition carries conviction.

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

Pleasure is by no means an infallible critical guide, but it is the least fallible.

The bad gardener quarrels with his rake.

A merefriend will agree with you, but a real friend will argue.

God has created the world in play.

Ashes fly back into the face of him who throws them.

To pushadvantages too far is neither generous nor just.

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

What dowe live for, if it is not to make life less difficult for each other.

Aquarrel is like buttermilk: once it's out of the churn, the more you shakeit, the more sour it grows.

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