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.

Philosophy begins in wonder. And, at the end, when philosophic thought has done its best, the wonder remains.

Peoplespend a lifetime searching for happiness; looking for peace. They chase idledreams, addictions, religions, even other people, hoping to fill theemptiness that plagues them. The irony is the only place they ever needed tosearch was within.

He whotalks incessantly, talks nonsense.

Every kind of peaceful cooperation among men is primarily basedon mutual trust and only secondarily on institutions such as courts ofjustice and police.

He who is unable to dance says the yard is stony.

We have, I fear, confused power with greatness.

Forbidden fruit can get us into a real jam.

Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind.

Ignorance is a form of environmental pollution.

Manyspeak much who cannot speak well.

All that is sometimes needed to make you content with you lot is a bad dream.