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.

It's the job that's never started as takes longest to finish.

A status symbol is an instrument you clash when you want someone to know you are there.

It is easier to discover deficiencies in indivuduals, states and providence than to see their real import and value.

Sincerity is impossible, unless it pervades the whole being, and the pretence of it saps the very foundation of character

A nation reveals itself not only by the men it honours, the men it remembers.

If power is for sale, sell your mother to buy it. You canalways buy her back again.

Whoeverhas the mind to fight has broken his connection with the universe. If you tryto dominate people you are already defeated. We study how to resolveconflict, not how to start it.

Youcan't shake hands with a clenched fist.

The exercise of power is determined by thousands ofinteractions between the world of the powerful and that of the powerless, allthe more so because these worlds are never divided by a sharp line: everyonehas a small part of himself in both.

Whenevertwo good people argue over principles, they are both right.

Fanaticism is the false fire of an overheated mind.