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.

Oursubconscious minds have no sense of humor, play no jokes, and cannot tell thedifference between reality and an imagined thought or image. What wecontinually think about eventually will manifest in our lives.

I willprepare and some day my chance will come.

Contradictionshould awaken Attention, not Passion.

When aman says that he approves something in principle, it means he hasn't theslightest intention of putting it in practice.

The more estimable the offender, the greater the torment.

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.

The surest way to remain poor is to be an honest man.

Melancholy is the joy of being said.

The compromisewill always be more expensive than either of the suggestions it iscompromising.

Let uswork without disputing. It is the only way to render life tolerable.

When your work speaks for itself,don't interrupt.