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.

The exercise of power is determined by thousands ofinteractions between the world of the powerful and that of the powerless, allthe more so because these worlds are never divided by a sharp line: everyonehas a small part of himself in both.

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

Not work, but the thought that he must work is what makes the lazy man tired.

What matter is not to add years to your life but to add life to your years.

Humour is emotional chaos remembered in tranquility.

He whois unable to dance says the yard is stony.

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

Grantgraciously what you cannot refuse safely and conciliate those you cannotconquer.

Drowning problems in an ocean of information is not the same as solving them.

When I dare to be powerful, to use my strength in theservice of my vision, then it becomes less and less important whether I amafraid.

Knowledge is of two kinds, we know a subject ourselves or we know where we can get information upon it.