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.

Unselfishness is more paying,only people have not the patience to practice it.

Reason is my philosophy, is only a harmony among irrational impulses.

Peoplewho are too concerned with how well they are doing will be less successfuland feel less competent than those who focus on the task itself... Somepsychologists call it a conflict between egoorientation,or between extrinsic and intrinsic motivation…

Mensucceed when they realize that their failures are the preparation for theirvictories.

One must be fond of people and trust them if one is not tomake a mess of life.

Inspiration is apt to come only while one is working, waited for, it usually keeps waiting.

Science has promised us truth. It has never promised us either peace or happiness.

Every man has enough power left to carry out that of whichhe is convinced.

Life is no brief candle- it's a splendid torch!

Standingin the middle of the road is very dangerous; you get knocked down by thetraffic from both sides.

Everybody thinks of changing humanity and nobody thinks of changing himself.