Trust no one unless you have eaten much salt with him.

The true test of intelligence is not how much people know how to do, but how they behave when they don't know what to do.

A man has no ears for that to which experience has given no access.

Talent alonewon't make you a success. Neither will being in the right place at the righttime, unless you are ready. The most important question is: 'Are you ready?'

Nature's instructions are always slow, those of men are generally premature.

You must remember that all work is simply to bring out the power of the mind which is already there to wake up the soul.

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.

Sometimesone pays most for the things one gets for nothing.

Show me a man who cannot bother to do little things andI'll show you a man who cannot be trusted to do big things.

The more estimable the offender, the greater the torment.

The means by which we live have outdistanced the ends forwhich we live. Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We haveguided missiles and misguided men.

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.