"Eagle, where were you born?" "In a narrow gorge." "Eagle, whither are you flying?" "Into the wide skies."

Do not keep your thoughts under cover. If you do so, you will forget where you have left them, in the same way as a miser sometimes forgets the cache where he has hidden his money, and loses it because of his greed.
"Do not, however, give your ideas away to others. An expensive tool should not be given to a child to play with. It will break the tool, or lose it, or simply cut itself."Nobody can know the ways of your horse better than you."

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an idea is like the act of conception. Of course birth will take place in due course, but the unborn child must mature like the foetus in the womb of a woman so as to be delivered in the sweat of the brow and in the anguish of travail. That is how a book comes to be written.

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A child's name can be chosen before it is born. What name shall I give my story? Shall I choose the name of a flower? Or of a star? Can I find it on other books of wisdom?
No, I shall not place another man's saddle on my steed. A name borrowed from an outside source can be only a by-name, a nickname, never a real name*************
When you are asked who you are, you can produce a document, your passport, which gives all the particulars about you. When a people is asked what it is, it produces, just like a document, its scientists, its writers, its artists and its statesmen. From early youth one should realise that one has come into the world so as to become a representative of one's people, and should be prepared to assume that role.


FROM BOOK