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.

Bythree methods we may learn wisdom: first, by reflection, which is noblest;second, imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is thebitterest.

Whenyou're at the edge of a cliff, sometimes progress is a step backwards.

We mustbe part of the general staff at the inception, rather than the ambulancedrivers at the bitter end.

Onceyou consent to some concession, you can never cancel it and put things backthe way they are.

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.

Men are mortal, but ideas are immortal.

In thebusiness world, everyone is always working at legitimate cross purposes,governed by self interest.

Tofight fear, act. To increase fear wait, put off, postpone.

It's better to light one candle than to curse the darkness.

Pain is the outcome of sin.

Conscience is the frame of character, love is the covering for it.