Please, not again what you studied, how long you spent at it, how many books you wrote, what people thought of you - but: what did you learn?

People today are in danger of drowning in information; but, because they have been taught that information is useful, they are more willing to drown than they need be. If they could handle information, they would not have to drown at all.

Better to be safe than to be sorry' is a remark of value only when these are the actual alternatives.

Sometimes a pessimist is only an optimist with extra information.

Dramatic. A well developed sense of the dramatic has values beyond what people usually imagine. One of these is to realise the limitations of a sense of the dramatic.

Man (and woman) has an infinite capacity for self-development. Equally, he has an infinite capacity for self-destruction. A human being may be clinically alive and yet, despite all appearances, spiritually dead.

No practice exists in isolation.