Nature arms each man with some faculty which enables himto do easily some feat impossible to any other.

At times, it is better to keep your mouth shut and let people wonder if you are a fool than to open it and remove all doubt.

Everytime we read, a seed is sown for the future.

Nothing is greater impediment to being on good terms with other than being ill at ease with yourself.

There's no point in arguing with partisan supporters. Their views are their identity.Nothing you can tell the most phlegmatic follower.

Sincerity is impossible, unless it pervades the whole being, and the pretence of it saps the very foundation of character

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

The hand of liberality is stronger than the arm of power.

The young man knows the rules, but the old man knows the exceptions.

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.

Two prisonerswhose cells adjoin communicate with each other by knocking on the wall. Thewall is the thing which separates them but is also their means ofcommunication. It is the same with us and God. Every separation is a link.

Thisduality has been reflected in classical as well as modern literature asreason versus passion, or mind versus intuition. The split between the ‘conscious’mind and the ‘unconscious.’ There are moments in each of ourlives when our verbal-intellect sugges