“You must empty out the dirty water before you fill the pitcher with clean.”

“Water shrinks wool, urgency shrinks time.Shrinkage may be an advantage or the reverse, according to expectation.”

“When the lion had eaten its fill, and the jackals had taken their share, the ants came along and finished up the meat from the bones of the haughty stag.”

“Enlightenment must come little by little - otherwise it would overwhelm.”

“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?”

“Learn to be as analytical about things of which you are credulous as you are of those which you criticise.”

“If you give what can be takes, you are not really giving.Take what you are given, not what you want to be given.Take what is given:Give what cannot be taken.”