Buyingis cheaper than asking.

Parents these days scarcely bring up children; they finance them.

The poet gives us his essence, but prose takes the mould of the body and mind entire.

Liberation is not deliverance.

The laws of life are founded on necessity, its charms on the non-essentials.

The nice thing about meditation is it makes doing nothing quite respectable.

Ifthere is any great secret of success in life, it lies in the ability to putyourself in the other person’s place and to see things from his point of view as well as your own.

Every man has the right to feel that "Because of me was the world created".

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.

Keepthings informal. Talking is the natural way to do business. Writing is greatfor keeping records and putting down details, but talk generates ideas. Greatthings come from our luncheon meetings which consist of a sandwich, a cup ofsoup, and a good idea

People say law but they mean wealth.

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.