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.

I'm nota combative person. My long experience has taught me to resolve conflict byraising the issues before I or others burn their boats.

The civilisation of one epoch becomes the manure of the next.

Wecould never learn to be brave and patient if there were only joy in the world.

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

If anenemy is annoying you by playing well, consider adopting his strategy.

Humoris the affectionate communication of insight.

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

Thegalleries are full of critics. They play no ball, they fight no fights. Theymake no mistakes because they attempt nothing. Down in the arena are thedoers. They make mistakes because they try many things. The man who makes nomistakes lacks boldness and

Changemeans movement. Movement means friction. Only in the frictionless vacuum of anonexistent abstract world can movement or change occur without that abrasivefriction of conflict.

When aman says that he approves something in principle, it means he hasn't theslightest intention of putting it in practice.

Beforeeverything else, getting ready is the secret to success.