The real purpose of books is to trap the mind into doing its own thinking

There may be said to be two classes of people in the world: those who constantly divide the people of the world into two classes and those who do not.

It's notthe will to win, but the will to prepare to win that makes the difference.

You can have power over people as long as you don't takeeverything away from them. But when you've robbed a man of everything, he'sno longer in your power.

Too late is the medicine prepared, when the disease has strengthened by long delay.

The civilisation of one epoch becomes the manure of the next.

Don't throwout the baby with the bath water.

Byblending the breath of the sun and the shade, true harmony comes into theworld.

Let no one, then think lightly of the world, lest he be despising himself unawares

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

Two man looks out through the same bars: the one sees the mud, the one the stars.

Aclosed mind is like a closed book; just a block of wood.