Say too soon what you think and you will say what everyone else thinks..

Metaphor isn't just a fancy turn of speech. It shapes our thoughts and feelings, reaches out to grasp new experience, and even binds our five dispara….

There are silences harder to take back than words..

The happy and the suffering probably understand life equally well, but the sufferers may see a little more clearly how little it is that they underst….

Too much apology doubles the offense..

You have two kinds of secrets. The ones only you know. The ones only you don't..

I don't know what's meant by Know thyself, which seems to ask a window to look at a window..

They say productivity is the key to confidence, and confidence ... to productivity. And they're happy walking back and forth between these two rooms,….

I would never accuse Willie Brown of slowing down, because he never does..

Reason is the lesser faith that steers us when we have already lost a greater one..

Anger has been ready to be angry..

It is by now proverbial that every proverb has its opposite. For every Time is money there is a Stop and smell the roses. When someone says You never….

Writing is like washing windows in the sun. With every attempt to perfect clarity, you make a new smear..

Tyranny and fantasy both like to write everyone else's lines..

How sure we are that everyone's watching. How sure we are that no one sees..

All work is the avoidance of harder work..

If you do more than your share you'd better want to: otherwise, you're paying yourself in a currency recognized nowhere else..

Who breaks the thread, the one who pulls, the one who holds on?.

The best way to know your faults is to notice which ones you accuse others of..

Only half of writing is saying what you mean. The other half is preventing people from reading what they expected you to mean..

I'm a kid checking mail, a kid on his cell with his questions: are we in love, Life, are we exclusive, are we forever?.