I advocate traveling light

Travel light, even yesterday is luggage.
~ Zen proverb
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Good advice

When you have to shoot, shoot.  Don't talk

~ Tuco (the bad guy) in The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly

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Some people’s lives are as cold as their lips…

Some people's lives run down like clocks 
One day they stop and that's all they've got 
Some lives wear out like old tennis shoes 
No one can use, well, it's sad but it's true 

Didn't anybody tell them? 
Didn't anybody see? 
Didn't anybody love them 
Like you love me? 

Some people's lives fade like their dreams 
Too tired to rise, too tired to sleep 
Some people laugh when they need to cry 
And they never know why 

Didn't anybody tell them 
That's not how it has to be? 
Didn't anybody love them 
Like you love me? 

Some people ask if the tears have to fall 
Then why take your chances? 
Why bother at all? 

And some people's lives are as cold as their lips 
They just need to be kissed 

Doesn't anybody tell them? 
Doesn't anybody see? 
Doesn't anybody love them 
Like you love me? 
Cause that's all they need

~ Janis Ian
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Stupid is as stupid does…

Stupidity is a more dangerous enemy of the good than malice. One may protest against evil; it can be exposed and, if need be, prevented by use of force. Evil always carries within itself the germ of its own subversion in that it leaves behind in human beings at least a sense of unease. 

Against stupidity we are defenseless. Neither protests nor the use of force accomplish anything here; reasons fall on deaf ears; facts that contradict one’s prejudgment simply need not be believed – in such moments the stupid person even becomes critical – and when facts are irrefutable they are just pushed aside as inconsequential, as incidental. 

In all this the stupid person, in contrast to the malicious one, is utterly self satisfied and, being easily irritated, becomes dangerous by going on the attack. For that reason, greater caution is called for when dealing with a stupid person than with a malicious one. Never again will we try to persuade the stupid person with reasons, for it is senseless and dangerous.

~ Dietrich Bonhoeffer
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