You can learn by listening, or by getting whacked between the eyes with a two - by - four. I always found listening easier.

"Surely you can entrust your task to your friends." "No," said Taran, after a long pause, "I have taken it on myself through my own choice." "If that is so," answered Medwyn, "then you can give it up...

Goat tongue is a gift, you got it from the day you're born or you ain't got it. If you got it, goats'll heed your say - so, if you ain't, they'll just trample you muddy and stand there scorning.

In the lowest Hell you find ignorance. In the lowest Heaven you find shrewdness.

Man goes looking for trouble, trouble's got a habit of following the scent right back to him.

Never forgive, never forget. Do it once and do it right. You reap what you sow. Plans go to hell as soon as the first shot is fired. Protect and serve. Never off duty.

Life's tough and even tougher when you're stupid

The problem with meddling, is that for every problem you solve, you create two more.

Stay humble; don't interfere; respect your creative genius

Can you draw a picture on the blackboard when somebody doesn't want you to? asked the rooster promptly. Yes, answered Kenny, if you write them a very nice poem. What is an only goat? A lonely goat,...

Once the troublesome mind begins to compose speeches and dream up arguments, especially if these are clever, it will soon imagine it is doing important work. But if you can surpass those thoughts,...

A desk is a dangerous place from which to view the world. - JOHN LE CARRÉ

"... at a luncheon, I sat next to a green-eyed young woman, a poet, who declared loftily that you learned nothing from books, it was life you learned from, passion, experience. The host, a fine old...

You don't trade in the devil you know for the one you don't know.

Why then should witless man so much misjudge That nothing is but that which he hath seen?

With the exercise of a little care, the nettle could be made useful; it is neglected and it becomes hurtful. It is exterminated. How many men resemble the nettle! He added with a pause: There are no...

If you chase several hares at once, you won't undertake any one of them.

It's such an interesting world. It wouldn't be half so interesting if we know all about everything, would it?

It's good advice, but I expect it will be hard to follow; good advice is apt to be, I think.

... this time I didn't launch into my usual tirade. Was it a memory of Krishna, the cool silence with which he countered disagreement, that stopped me? I saw something I hadn't realized before: words...

Every choice brings wisdom in its wake. If you got to have the wisdom first, it wouldn't be a choice — just policy

Thinking is hard work, which is why you don't see a lot of people doing it.

Blessed are the idiots, for they are happiest people on earth.

Still waters run deep, I'd thought. Later, I learned that silence did not necessarily guarantee depth.

You can go to war with the world, but the world will always win

It's easy to be omniscient when you've done it all before.

sometimes the most difficult battles are the ones we are forced not to fight.

About that, little Lena, all wise and holy people have broken their heads over it. There is no happiness that lasts.

One must find the source within one's own Self, one must possess it. Everything else was seeking -- a detour, an error.

That's the problem with wishes, they ensnare you. In fairy tales they're nothing but trouble, magnifying the greed and vanity of the person for whom they are granted.