A cup is useful only when it is empty; and a mind that is filled with beliefs, with dogmas, with assertions, with quotations, is really an uncreative mind.

If all those who speak would weigh their words, how light air would be!

You andyour spouse should consider the arguments you have, not as calamities in thehistory of your child’sdevelopment, but as opportunities for learning. Take the opportunity to teachyour children the art ofand value in negotiation, and to demonstrate you

Power is not a means, it is an end. One does not establisha dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolutionin order to establish the dictatorship.

Ultimately, the only power to which man should aspire isthat which he exercises over himself.

A fly beforehis own eye is bigger than an elephant in the next field.

People say law but they mean wealth.

To be wronged is nothing, unless you continue to remember it.

It isdifficult to negotiate where neither will trust.

Dig a well before you are thirsty.

The tormentof human frustration, whatever its immediate cause, is the knowledge that theself is in prison, its vital force and ‘mangled mind’ leaking away in lonely,wasteful self-conflict.

Genius is a long impatience.