The colour of the water seems to be the colour of the glass into which it has been poured'.

Opinion is usually something which people have when they lack comprehensive information.

It is not enough that there is a collection of people with the common aim of working in unison towards an objective... Aspiration and desire only are not enough.

You are adrift while you still think that a means is an end.

A king who feared wasps once decreed that they were abolished. As it happened, they did him no harm. But he was eventually stung to death by scorpions.

Talking about straws and camels' backs is just one way of approaching things. If you have enough camels, no backs need be broken.

One can give or withhold in a manner far more effective, sophisticated, useful, which is quite invisible to people who think that giving or withholding is done by external assessment. If you seek some mark of favour or 'promotion', know that you are not ready for it. Progress comes through capacity to learn, and is irresistible. Nobody can stand between you and knowledge if you are fit for it.