A goodlistener is not someone with nothing to say. A good listener is a good talkerwith a sore throat.

The highest proof of virtue is to possess boundless powerwithout abusing it.

Everything is funny as long as it is happening to somebody else. -Will Rogers

Power takes as ingratitude the writhing of its victims.

When indoubt, ask. When not in doubt, ask. If you are not in doubt, you may bekidding yourself.

The exercise of power is determined by thousands ofinteractions between the world of the powerful and that of the powerless, allthe more so because these worlds are never divided by a sharp line: everyonehas a small part of himself in both.

Better ask ten times than go astray once.

Adversity introduces a man to himself.

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

Only hethat has traveled the road knows where the holes are deep.

Search not a wound too deep lest thou maketh a new one.

Theproblem with communication is the illusion that is has occurred.