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

Don't consideryour reputation and you may do anything you like.

Who can say more than rich praise, that you alone are you?

To know the pains of power, we must go to those who haveit; to know its pleasures, we must go to those who are seeking it.

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.

Conflictis the gadfly of thought. It stirs us to observation and memory. Itinstigates to invention. It shocks us out of sheeplikepassivity, and sets us at noting and contriving.

It's notthe size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.

The difficulty of speeches is what you are perpetually poised between the ciche and the indiscretion

... That may appear as the truth to one personwill often appear as untruth to another person. But that need not worry theseeker. Where there is honest effort, it will be realized that what appearedto be different truths are like the countless and apparen

All excellent things are as difficult as they are rare

People loan their trust, they don't give it.

You may be deceived if you trust too much, but you willlive in torment if you don't trust enough.