If you would know what nobody knows, read what everybody reads just after one year afterwards.

Thereward for always listening when you'd rather be talking is wisdom.

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

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

I said to the almond tree, ‘'Friend, speak to me of God,’' and the almond treeblossomed.

One should never rub bottoms with a porcupine.

Onemight as well try to ride two horses moving in different directions, as totry to maintain in equal force two opposing or contradictory sets of desires.

To start blindly with a statement is a sign of arrogance and narrow-mindedness,and will lead to conflict. To start blindly with a question is a sign ofuncertainty and honesty, and will lead to wisdom.

Don'thate, it's too big a burden to bear.

No country without an atom bomb could properly consider itself independet.

Theterm up has no meaning apart from the word down. The term fasthas no meaning apart from the term slow. In addition, such termshave no meaning even when used together, except when confined to a veryparticular situation... most of our language about the

Ifyou are leaning over to starboard to balance the boat against the other guy'spropensity to lean too far to port, both of you are about to get wet.