It is a triumph of life that old people lose their memories of inessential things, though memory does not often fail with regard to things that are of real interest to us. Cicero illustrated this with the stroke of a pen: No old man forgets where he has hidden his treasure.

- Gabriel Garcia Marquez

You look bemused.

According to a survey, mobile phones are our 3rd most important possession, behind keys and wallet.

But soon our phones will also become both our keys and wallet...

Han Solo - ultimate alpha
Luke - ultimate potential

Contentment is a great virtue, though it may not attract one's attention at first. Those who are truly content are usually quiet about it. It is a pleasure to be in their company, because they are full, peaceful, and generous.

[Forgot where I saw this]

Talking takes us away from the music.

To get something done, give the task to the busiest person.

"Don't play what you know, play what you hear."

- Miles Davis

A blind man doesn't fear snakes.

Idi Amin: You are British.
Nicholas Garrigan: Scottish. I am Scottish.
Idi Amin: Scottish? Ha! Ha! Why didn't you say so?... Great soldiers. Very brave. And good people. Completely. Let me tell you, if I could be anything instead of a Ugandan, I would be a Scot.
Nicholas Garrigan: Right... Really?
Idi Amin: He. Except for the red hair, which I'm sure is attractive to your women, but which we Africans, we find is quite disgusting.

- Last King of Scotland

Free from desire, you realize the mystery.
Caught in desire, you see only the manifestations.
Yet mystery and manifestations
arise from the same source.
This source is called darkness.
Darkness within darkness.
The gateway to all understanding.

-Tao Te Ching

European smoker at a restaurant: "Do you have an ass tray?"

Gotta love accents.

Satyagraha is not passive resistance or weakness, but direct action, the purpose being to confront an opponent with the demand that he make a choice. It assumes the oppressor can change over to your way of thinking. You too learn, by examining your own motives, whether they are worthwhile or not. It ends in mutual liberation.

- M J B, Ganesh

I find that for Asians and for the middle-aged-upwards, a calm mind is essential to happiness. It's the mask of well-being.

What makes more sense:

Love is how you spend your time
or
Time is how you spend your love

?

"It's true that men - they respond to beauty... it doesn't end for them, this... concern with beauty as a physical actuality in the world - and that's clearly imprisoning and it infantilizes... but it's true... "

- ZS

Don't worry about being interesting. Be interested.

"Hello" comes from an abbreviated Hungarian phrase, which approximately means can you hear me? The assistant of Alexander Graham Bell used to say it - he was Hungarian.

Transactional listening - what is he saying?

Real listening - where is he coming from?

We sleep 20% less than we did 100 years ago.