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.

Takecare, don't fight, and remember: if you do not choose to lead, you willforever be led by others. Find what scares you, and do it. And you can make adifference, if you choose to do so.

Though patience be a tired mare, yet she will plod.

Treat peopleas if they were what they ought to be and you help them to become what theyare capable of being.

To be preparedis half the victory.

Stoppingat third base adds no more to the score than striking out.

Themost intense conflicts, if overcome, leave behind a sense of security andcalm that is not easily disturbed. It is just these intense conflicts andtheir conflagration which are needed to produce valuable and lasting results.

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

The exercise of power is determined by thousands ofinteractions between the world of the powerful and that of the powerless, allthe more so because these worlds are never divided by a sharp line: everyonehas a small part of himself in both.

Superioty and inferiority are individual, not racial or national.

The oldbelieve everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young knoweverything.

Conflictinvolves incompatible behaviors rather than competitive goals.