Man alone contains within himself as many species as exist on earth.

Patriots always talk of dying for their country, and never of killing for their country

The mostimportant things are the hardest to say, because words diminish them.

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

People whoare too concerned with how well they are doing will be less successful andfeel less competent than those who focus on the task itself... Somepsychologists call it a conflict between egoorientation, or between extrinsicand intrinsic motivation...

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.

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

If you get to thinking you're a person of some influence,try ordering somebody else's dog around.

It is a strange desire to seek power and to lose liberty,or to seek power over others and to lose power over a man's self.

True,Heaven prohibits certain pleasures; but one can generally negotiate acompromise.

Even a fish wouldn't get into trouble if it kept its mouth shut.

Do not tell me the problem is a difficult one. If it were not difficult, it would not be a problem