I love power. But it is as an artist that I love it. Ilove it as a musician loves his violin, to draw out its sounds and chords andharmonies.

Differentfields, different grasshoppers; different seas, different fish.

Even a fish wouldn't get into trouble if it kept its mouth shut.

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.

The tormentof human frustration, whatever its immediate cause, is the knowledge that theself is in prison, its vital force and ‘mangled mind’ leaking away in lonely,wasteful self-conflict.

If you are patient in one moment of anger, you will escapea hundred days of sorrow.

Do not tell me the problem is a difficult one. If it were not difficult, it would not be a problem

You made your bed, now lie in it.

A man has no ears for that to which experience has given no access.

The sun, though it passes through dirty places, yet remains as pure as before.

Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

This dualityhas been reflected in classical as well as modern literature as reason versuspassion, or mind versus intuition. The split between the ‘conscious’ mind andthe ‘unconscious.’ There are moments in each of our lives when ourverbal-intellect sugges