Silenceis foolish if we are wise, but wise if we are foolish.

There is no passion in life as intense as the desire to change someone else's draft.

It's better to let someone think you are an Idiot than to open your mouth and prove it.

If youare standing upright, don't worry if your shadow is crooked.

A book, like a landscape, is a state of consciouness varying with readers.

The Universe is not only queerer that we imagine, it is queered than we can imagine.

I'vealways felt that a person's intelligence is directly reflected by the numberof conflicting points of view he can entertain simultaneously on the sametopic.

Concentration of wealth will never be a problem as long as we have those three great institutions for redistributing it: Taxes, wives, offspring.

Thisduality has been reflected in classical as well as modern literature asreason versus passion, or mind versus intuition. The split between the ‘conscious’mind and the ‘unconscious.’ There are moments in each of ourlives when our verbal-intellect sugges

If you arepatient in a moment of anger, you will escape a hundred days of sorrow.

Tranquility will roof a house, but discord can wear away the foundation of a city.

He who is unable to dance says the yard is stony.