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.

One cannot be precise and still be pure.

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

Drowning problems in an ocean of information is not the same as solving them.

Nothing has happend to you unless you make much of it.

Quite often good things have hurtful consequnces. There are instances of men who have been ruined by their money or killed by their courage.

I know youbelieve you understand what you think I said, but I'm not sure you realizethat what you heard isn't what I meant.

If you are distressed by anything external, the pain isnot due to the thing itself but to your own estimate of it; and this you havethe power to revoke at any moment.

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.

Tofight and conquer in all your battles is not supreme excellence; supremeexcellence consists in breaking the enemy's resistance without fighting.

Thisduality has been reflected in classical as well as modern literature asreason versus passion, or mind versus intuition. The split between the ‘conscious’mind and the ‘unconscious.’ There are moments in each of ourlives when our verbal-intellect sugges

Agrievance is most poignant when almost redressed.