Status symbols are medals you buy yourself

Never ask a barber if you need a haircut.

Changemeans movement. Movement means friction. Only in the frictionless vacuum of anonexistent abstract world can movement or change occur without that abrasivefriction of conflict.

The bird a nest, the spider a web, man friendship.

To effectivelycommunicate, we must realize that we are all different in the way we perceivethe world and use this understanding as a guide to our communication withothers.

Suspicion begets suspicion.

Peoplespend a lifetime searching for happiness; looking for peace. They chase idledreams, addictions, religions, even other people, hoping to fill theemptiness that plagues them. The irony is the only place they ever needed tosearch was within.

Thepessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees opportunityin every difficulty.

Measurement of life should be rather proportioned to the intensity of experience than it's actual length.

It doesnot do to leave a Dragon out of your calculations, if you live near him.

I'vealways felt that a person's intelligence is directly reflected by the numberof conflicting points of view he can entertain simultaneously on the sametopic.

It ishard to change our point of view in a conflict. Most often, it is because weare not nearly as interested in resolving the conflict and possibly creatinga new ‘pearl’ as we are in being right.