Ultimately, all things are known because you want to believe you know.

You should never be in the company of anyone with whom you would not want to die.

His voice was low, charged with unspeakable adjectives.

If you believe certain words, you believe their hidden arguments. When you believe something is right or wrong, true or false, you believe the assumptions in the words which express the arguments. Such assumptions are often full of holes, but remain most precious to the convinced.

A ruler must learn to persuade and not to compel... he must lay the best coffee hearth to attract the finest men... a good ruler has to learn his world's language... it's different for every world... the language of the rocks and growing things... the language you don't hear just with your ears... the Mystery of Life... not a problem to solve, but a reality to experience... Understanding must move with the flow of the process.

The willow submits to the wind and prospers until one day it is many willows - a wall against the wind.

There is not secret to balance. You just have to feel the waves.