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.

When weblame, we give away our power.

Folly is perennial and yet the human race has survived

Theconventional view serves to protect us from the painful job of thinking.

Ittakes time to save time.

Habit: the shackles of the free

Instead of focusing on big goals,focus on small goals.Small victories always lead to large ones.Swami Vivekanand..

Aquarrel is like buttermilk: once it's out of the churn, the more you shakeit, the more sour it grows.

Maturityis the capacity to endure uncertainty.

Neverdoubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed people can change theworld. Indeed, it's the only thing that ever has.

Far better to think historically, to remember the lessonsof the past. Thus, far better to conceive of power as consisting in part ofthe knowledge of when not to use all the power you have. Far better to be onewho knows that if you reserve the power not to

Failureto prepare is preparing to fail.