Examine what is said, not him who speaks.

Not all words require an answer.

If it takes a lot of words to say what you have in mind, give it more thought.

Look around you-there are people around you. Maybe you will remember one of them all your life and later eat your heart out because you didn't make use of the opportunity to ask him questions. And the less you talk, the more you'll hear.

This is a grave danger: the stoppage of information between the parts of the planet. Contemporary science knows that such stoppage is the way of entropy, of universal destruction.

Learn to say "No"; it will be of more use to you than to be able to read Latin.