The proverb says that 'The answer to a fool is silence'. Observation, however, indicates that almost any other answer will have the same effect in the long run.

The laziness of adolescence is a rehearsal for the incapacity of old age.

It is the message, not the man, which is important to the Sufis.

A certain person may have, as you say, a wonderful presence; I do not know. What I do know is that he has a perfectly delightful absence.

If you want to strengthen an enemy and make him exult - hate him.

None should say: 'I can trust' or 'I cannot trust' until he is a master of the option, of trusting or not trusting.

Dramatic. A well developed sense of the dramatic has values beyond what people usually imagine. One of these is to realise the limitations of a sense of the dramatic.