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 rumor goes in one ear and out many mouths.

Thetruth is that our finest moments are most likely to occur when we are feelingdeeply uncomfortable, unhappy, or unfulfilled. For it is only in suchmoments, propelled by our discomfort, that we are likely to step out of ourruts and start searching for di

A hero is no braver than anyone else; he is only brave minutes longer

Contradictionshould awaken Attention, not Passion.

Talk back to your internal critic. Train yourself to recognize and write downcritical thoughts as they go through your mind. Learn why these thoughts areuntrue and practice talking and writing back to them.

When the defects of others are percieved with so much clarity, it is because one possesses with oneself.

Truth is strengthened by observation and delay; falsehood by haste and uncertainity.

Suffering is the sole origin of consciousness.

Sometimeswe have the dream but we are not ourselves ready for the dream. We have togrow to meet it.

I haveoften regretted my speech, never my silence.

No nation is so poor that it cannot afford to gie free speech