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.

Without trust, words become the hollow sound of a woodengong. With trust, words become life itself.

The ability to laugh together is the essence of love.

There is much more learning than knowing in the world.

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

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

Alwaysforgive your enemies. Nothing annoys them so much.

So longas a man is angry he cannot be in the right.

A large ocean liner was headed across the Atlantic fromPortsmouth to New York. As it neared its destination at night, a lookout onthe wing of the bridge reported, ‘Light, bearing on the starboardbow.’‘Is it steady or moving astern?’ the captain called out

Misfortuneis not that which can be avoided, but that which cannot.

We arejudged by what we finish, not what we start.

The wicked are not always clever, nor are dictators always right.