Reflections

If you give what can be taken, you are not really giving.
Take what you are given, not what you want to be given.
Take what is given:
Give what cannot be taken.

Expectation
If, from time to time, you give up expectation, you will be able to perceive what it is you are getting.

Common Knowledge
The more you look at “common knowledge,” the more you realize that it is more likely to be common than it is to be knowledge.
No real knowledge is common.

Optimist and Pessimist
Sometimes a pessimist is only an optimist with extra information.

Hope
It is not “Have I got a chance?” It is more often: “Have I seen my chance?”

Secrets
A real secret is something which only one person knows.

Your Problem
I have heard all that you have had to say to me on your problems.
You ask me what to do about them.
It is my view that your real problem is that you are a member of the human race.
Face that one first.

Credulity
Learn to be as analytical about things of which you are credulous as you are of those which you criticize.

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

Saying a Thing
It is not important to have said a thing first, or best – or even most interestingly. What is important is to say it on the right occasion.