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 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.

Of all the ways to make your fortune the quickest and the best is to make people see clearly how much is your success is in there interest

Though patience be a tired mare, yet she will plod.

A man without a smiling face must not open a shop.

Manmust evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge,aggression, and retaliation.

It isdifficult to negotiate where neither will trust.

A teacher as a person is more important than a teacher as a technician. What he is has more effect than anything he does.

Marriagemeans expectations and expectations mean conflict.

Bekind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.

Any child who has parents who are interested in him and has a house full of books isin't poor.

Little things console us because little things afflict us.