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

It was impossible to get a conversation going, everybody was talking too much.

A large ocean liner was headed across the Atlantic fromPortsmouth to New York. As it neared its destination at night, a lookout onthe wing of the bridge reported, ‘Light, bearing on the starboardbow.’‘Is it steady or moving astern?’ the captain called out

Out of the fullness of the heart the mouth speaks.

My Strength is made perfect in weakness

Success is often the result of taking a mis-step in the right direction.

Unresolved:A dose of adversity is often as needful as a dose of medicine.

All the power that we exercise over others depends on thepower we exercise over ourselves.

The fundamental concept in social science is Power, in thesame sense in which Energy is the fundamental concept in physics.

Nothingstrengthens the judgment and quickens the conscience like individualresponsibility.

The Older I get, the more I judge people by their character and not by their ideas.

I give myself,sometimes, admirable advice, but I am incapable of taking it.