The man who seeks revenge digs two graves.
Your trouble is, you keep trying to unscrew the unscrutable.
I'd rather be a lightning rod than a seismograph.
Sometimes I looked at them and sometimes they looked at me, but rarely did we look at one another.
Listen, wait, and be patient. Every shaman knows you have to deal with the fire that's in your audience's eye.
If you don't watch it people will force you one way or the other, into doing what they think you should do, or into just being mule-stubborn and doing the opposite out of spite.