There'sno need to fear the wind if your haystacks are tied down.

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

The best prophet is common sense, our native wit.

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

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.

No battle is more sorely lost that the one not fought

To exaggrerate is to weaken.

Change meansmovement. Movement means friction. Only in the frictionless vacuum of anonexistent abstract world can movement or change occur without that abrasivefriction of conflict.

If you are distressed by anything external, the pain isnot due to the thing itself but to your own estimate of it; and this you havethe power to revoke at any moment.

When makinga decision of minor importance, I have always found it advantageous toconsider all the pros and cons. In vital matters, however, such as the choiceof a mate or a profession, the decision should come from the unconscious,from somewhere within ou

Beautifullight is born of darkness, so the faith that springs from conflict is oftenthe strongest and the best.

Onlywhen you can be extremely pliable and soft can you be extremely hard andstrong.