Half of the people lie with their lips; the other half with their tears.
A prophet is not someone with special visions, just someone blind to most of what others see.
You need to keep reminding yourself of the obvious: charm lies in the unsaid, the unwritten, and the undisplayed. It takes mastery to control silence.
Don’t complain too loud about wrongs done to you; you may give ideas to your less imaginative enemies.
Decline starts with the replacement of dreams with memories and ends with the replacement of memories with other memories.