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.

Creation is only the projection into form of that which already exists.

Buying ischeaper than asking.

It is throughcooperation, rather than conflict, that your greatest successes will bederived.

Thoroughnesscharacterizes all successful men. Genius is the art of taking infinite pains.All great achievement has been characterized by extreme care, infinitepainstaking, even to the minutest detail.

A danger forseen is half avoided.

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

Power is the faculty or capacity to act, the strength andpotency to accomplish something. It is the vital energy to make choices anddecisions. It also includes the capacity to overcome deeply embedded habitsand to cultivate higher, more effective ones.

There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.

Mandoes not live by words alone, despite the fact that sometimes he has to eatthem.

Adversity attracts the man of character. He seeks out the better joy, responsibility.

A lifemaking mistakes is not only more honorable, butmore useful than a life spent doing nothing at all.