Youcannot truly listen to anyone and do anything else at the same time.

Nosnowflake in an avalanche ever feels responsible.

Listening,not imitation, may be the sincerest form of flattery.

When regard for truth has been broken down or evenslightly weakened, all things will remain doubtful.

A roundegg can be made square according to how you cut it; words would be harshaccording to how you speak them.

Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone.

Thosewho are at war with others are not at peace with themselves.

The highest pleasure to be got out of freedom, and having nothing to do, is labour

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

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

Civilization has made the peasantry its pack animal.

There are questions of real power and then there arequestions of phony authority. You have to break through the phony authorityto begin to fight the real questions of power.