Aquarrel is like buttermilk: once it's out of the churn, the more you shake it,the more sour it grows.

The greatest intelligence is precisely the one that suffers most from its own limitations.

Trust exists; only lies are invented.

It's more shameful to mistrust one's friends than to be deceived by them.

A language is like living skin itself.

Let not thy will roar, when the power can but whisper.

The nice thing about meditation is it makes doing nothing quite respectable.

Two prisonerswhose cells adjoin communicate with each other by knocking on the wall. Thewall is the thing which separates them but is also their means ofcommunication. It is the same with us and God. Every separation is a link.

Far better to think historically, to remember the lessonsof the past. Thus, far better to conceive of power as consisting in part ofthe knowledge of when not to use all the power you have. Far better to be onewho knows that if you reserve the power not to

Opportunists take now for an answer.

It wasimpossible to get a conversation going, everybody was talking too much.

Conduct is wise or foolish only in reference to its results.