Muchtalking is the cause of danger. Silence is the means of avoiding misfortune.The talkative parrot is shut up in a cage. Other birds, without speech, flyfreely about.

Discord gives a relish to concord.

Voilence is a Just when kindness is vain

Makesure you leave some fat for the other side.

Knowingthat everything's futile but still fighting, still raging against the dying ofthe light that's what motivates me all the time ... If you hold that sense offutility in your head for too long, it can begin to eat into you. You canstill be aware of it

Theconventional view serves to protect us from the painful job of thinking.

Life cannot go on without much forgetting.

Politeness is the art of selecting among one's real thoughts.

Usenon-verbal communication to SOFTEN the hard-line position of others: S =Smile, O = Open, Posture, F = Forward Lean, T = Touch, E = Eye Contact, N =Nod.

Fourthings come not back: the spoken word, the spent arrow, the past life, and theneglected opportunity.

Remembernot only to say the right thing in the right place, but far more difficultstill, to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment.

As long as there is life there is danger.