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.

Grantgraciously what you cannot refuse safely and conciliate those you cannotconquer.

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.

Oursubconscious minds have no sense of humor, play no jokes, and cannot tell thedifference between reality and an imagined thought or image. What wecontinually think about eventually will manifest in our lives.

Why don'tyou want to do what you know you should do? The reason you don't is thatyou're in conflict with yourself.

Most ofour so-called reasoning consists in finding arguments for going on believingas we already do.

No country without an atom bomb could properly consider itself independet.

Diseases are Tax on the pleasure.

Onecomes to believe whatever one repeats to oneself sufficiently often, whetherthe statement be true or false. It comes to be dominating thought in one'smind.

Speakwhen you are angry and you will make the best speech you will ever regret.

Slander cannot destroy an honest man: when the flood recedes the rock is there.

Living is the art of getting used to what we did'nt expect.