Useful manual labour, intelligently performed is the means per excellence for developing the intellect.

Whenyou plant lettuce, if it does not grow well, you don't blame the lettuce. Youlook for reasons it is not doing well. It may need fertilizer, or more water,or less sun. You never blame the lettuce. Yet if we have problems with ourfriends or our family,

Let us nevernegotiate out of fear. But let us never fear to negotiate.

Thisduality has been reflected in classical as well as modern literature asreason versus passion, or mind versus intuition. The split between the ‘conscious’mind and the ‘unconscious.’ There are moments in each of ourlives when our verbal-intellect sugges

Few things are harder to pus up with than the annoyance of a good example.

He who asks questions cannot avoid the answers.

What wesee depends mainly on what we look for.

Differentfields, different grasshoppers; different seas, different fish.

The highest pleasure to be got out of freedom, and having nothing to do, is labour

Another form of wastefulness is expenditure of words beyond the income of ideas.

Thedeeper the waters are, the more still they run.

Themost intense conflicts, if overcome, leave behind a sense of security andcalm that is not easily disturbed. It is just these intense conflicts andtheir conflagration which are needed to produce valuable and lasting results.