Even a fish wouldn't get into trouble if it kept its mouth shut.

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

Almost all of our relationships begin and most of them continue as forms of mutual exploitation, a mental or physical barter, to be terminated when one or both parties run out of goods.

Whenelephants fight, it is the grass who suffers.

Men are cruel, but man is kind.

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

Speechis human, silence is divine, yet also brutish and dead; therefore we mustlearn both arts.

Angels fly, because they take themselves lightly.

No one was ever really taught by another; each of us has to teach himself.

Silenceis the ultimate weapon of power.

The more faithfully you listen to the voice withhin you, the batter you will hear what is sounding outside.And only he who listens can speak.

If necessityis the mother of invention, conflict is its father.