Ideal society is a drama enacted exclusively in the imagination

The Pursuit of perfection is the persuit of sweetness and light.

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.

A lost battle is a battle one thinks one has lost.

Our fear of disasters that may never happen robs us of the courage to meet the ills that do occur

The lust for power in dominating others inflames the heartmore than any other passion.

Thereis no such thing as absolute value in this world. You can only estimate whata thing is worth to 'you.'

You don'thave to worry about being bit if the dog doesn't have any teeth. Success hasmade failures of many men.

Sorrow and silence are strong, and patient endurance is god-like.

People whoare too concerned with how well they are doing will be less successful andfeel less competent than those who focus on the task itself... Somepsychologists call it a conflict between egoorientation, or between extrinsicand intrinsic motivation...

It isimpossible to defeat an ignorant man in argument.

Thework will teach you how to do it.