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.

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.

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

He whocannot agree with his enemies is controlled by them.

Ignorance is a bold, and knowledge reserved

No matter how much cats fight, there always seem to be plenty of kittens.

Write injuries in dust, benefits in marble.

Thereis no advancement to him who stands trembling because he cannot see the endfrom the beginning.

Nothing lays itself open to the change of exaggeration more than the language of naked truth.

Out ofthe fullness of the heart the mouth speaks.

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.

Neverforget the power of silence, that massively disconcerting pause which goes onand on and may at last induce an opponent to babble and backtrack nervously.