To believein something, and not to live it, is dishonest.

A language is like living skin itself.

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.

Our power is in our ability to decide.

People whoare too concerned with how well they are doing will be less successful andfeel less competent than those who focus on the task itself... Somepsychologists call it a conflict between egoorientation, or between extrinsicand intrinsic motivation...

Nothing lays itself open to the change of exaggeration more than the language of naked truth.

Opportunity may be hard to recognize if you are only looking for a lucky break.

Civilization has made the peasantry its pack animal.

Nothing would be done at all if a man waited till he could do it so well that no one could find fault with it

Could agreater miracle take place than for us to look through each other’seyes for an instant?

To know how to free oneself is nothing: the arduous thing is to know what to do with one's freedom.

If wecannot end our differences at least we can make the world safe for diversity.