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.

Thedays are too short even for love; how can there be enough time for quarreling?

Example is better than following it.

Old wood best of burn, old friend to trust and old authors to read.

Whoeverhas the mind to fight has broken his connection with the universe. If you tryto dominate people you are already defeated. We study how to resolveconflict, not how to start it.

Don'tbargain for fish which are still in the water.

The wise man learns more from his enemies than the fool does from his friends.

We mustbe part of the general staff at the inception, rather than the ambulancedrivers at the bitter end.

Every man is wanted; and no man is wanted much.

Get someone else to blow your horn and the sound will carry twice as far.

Too little liberty brings stagnation, too much brings chaos.

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.