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.

A newspaper is not just for reporting the news as it is, but to make people angry enough to do something about it

People whoare too concerned with how well they are doing will be less successful andfeel less competent than those who focus on the task itself... Somepsychologists call it a conflict between egoorientation, or between extrinsicand intrinsic motivation...

Wisdom requires that we pour a little oil of delicate courtesy on the wheels of friendship.

Learning, the destroyer of arrogance, begets arrogance in fools, even as light that illumines the eye, makes owls blind.

Two prisonerswhose cells adjoin communicate with each other by knocking on the wall. Thewall is the thing which separates them but is also their means ofcommunication. It is the same with us and God. Every separation is a link.

Education is the chief defence of a Nation.

Never play cat and mouse games if you are a mouse.

Every village has to become a self-sufficient republic.

The greatest prayer is patience.

The real great man is the man who makes every man feel great.

Necessitynever made a good bargain.