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.

This dualityhas been reflected in classical as well as modern literature as reason versuspassion, or mind versus intuition. The split between the ‘conscious’ mind andthe ‘unconscious.’ There are moments in each of our lives when ourverbal-intellect sugges

Nothing makes it easier to resist temptation than a proper upbringing, a sound set of values.

The split in you is clear. There is a part of you that knows what it shoulddo, and a part that does what it feels like doing.

Action may not always bring Happiness, but there is no happiness without Action.

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

A book is a mirror; if an ass peers into it, you can't expect an apostle to peer out.

Donot wrong or hate your neighbor for it is not he that you wrong but yourself.

If you arepatient in a moment of anger, you will escape a hundred days of sorrow.

Chances happens to all, but to turn chance to reality is the gift of the few.

When aman says that he approves something in principle, it means he hasn't theslightest intention of putting it in practice.

Soremarkably perverse is the nature of man that he despises those that court himand admires whoever will not bend before him.