Imagination is useful as long as it remains practical.

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.

Far better to think historically, to remember the lessonsof the past. Thus, far better to conceive of power as consisting in part ofthe knowledge of when not to use all the power you have. Far better to be onewho knows that if you reserve the power not to

There isnothing so disagreeable, that a patient mind cannot find some solace for it.

A child is not a vase to be filled, but a fire to be lit.

A fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of sense to know how to tell a lie.

Frustration is commonly the difference between what you would like to be and what you are willing to become what you would like to be.

Conflictcan be seen as a gift of energy, in which neither sideloses and a new dance is created.

Sciencecannot resolve moral conflicts, but it can help to more accurately frame thedebates about those conflicts.

Without dialogue there is no communication, without communication there is no true education.

There is sweet joy that comes to us that comes to us after sorrow.

Themost important of life's battles is the one we fight daily in the silentchambers of the soul.