The first precept was never to accept a thing as true until I knew it as such without a single doubt.
The best of us must sometimes eat our words.
Listen. Do not have an opinion while you listen because frankly, your opinion doesn?t hold much water outside of Your Universe. Just listen. Listen until their brain has been twisted like a dripping towel and what they have to say is all over the floor.
Ask a deeply religious Christian if he?d rather live next to a bearded Muslim that may or may not be plotting a terror attack, or an atheist that may or may not show him how to set up a wireless network in his house. On the scale of prejudice, atheists don?t seem so bad lately.
Be sincere; be brief; be seated.
The coldest winter I ever spent was a summer in San Francisco.
An idealist is one who, on noticing that a rose smells better than a cabbage, concludes that it will also make better soup.