Don'tbargain for fish which are still in the water.

Wisdom is what you get for a lifetime of listening when you'd have preferred totalk.

Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerfuland the powerless means to side with the powerful, not to be neutral.

Whenyou plant lettuce, if it does not grow well, you don't blame the lettuce. Youlook for reasons it is not doing well. It may need fertilizer, or more water,or less sun. You never blame the lettuce. Yet if we have problems with ourfriends or our family,

You may be deceived if you trust too much, but you willlive in torment if you don't trust enough.

Somewherethere is a map of how it can be done.

Knowlege is two-fold, and consists not only an affirmation of what is true, but in the negation of that which is faise

The Natural flights of Human mind are not from Pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope.

Humoris the affectionate communication of insight.

You can't unscramble an egg.

The onesure way to conciliate a tiger is to allow oneself to be devoured.

It'sgood to shut up sometimes.