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.

If you get to thinking you're a person of some influence,try ordering somebody else's dog around.

A fly beforehis own eye is bigger than an elephant in the next field.

Don'tbargain for fish which are still in the water.

It is better to trust and sometimes be disappointed thanto be forever mistrusting and be right occasionally.

Aclosed mind is like a closed book; just a block of wood.

When youcannot make up your mind which of two evenly balanced courses of action youshould take choose the bolder.

When makinga decision of minor importance, I have always found it advantageous toconsider all the pros and cons. In vital matters, however, such as the choiceof a mate or a profession, the decision should come from the unconscious,from somewhere within ou

Kindness it is that bring forth kindness.

Years wrinkle the face, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul.

Whilewe consider when to begin, it becomes too late.

Muchtalking is the cause of danger. Silence is the means of avoiding misfortune.The talkative parrot is shut up in a cage. Other birds, without speech, flyfreely about.