Much learning does not teach understanding.

Compromise.Such an adjustment of conflicting interests as gives each adversary thesatisfaction of thinking he has got what he ought not to have, and isdeprived of nothing except what was justly his due.

The more we see, the more we shall be able to imagine, and the more we imagine, the more we must think we see.

Liberty and democracy becomes unholy when their hands are dyed red with innocent blood.

Knowingthat everything's futile but still fighting, still raging against the dying ofthe light that's what motivates me all the time ... If you hold that sense offutility in your head for too long, it can begin to eat into you. You canstill be aware of it

Makesure you leave some fat for the other side.

If youcould kick the person in the pants responsible for most of your trouble, youwouldn't sit for a month.

You can't go very far if you don't begin very near.

By tryingoften, the monkey learns to jump from the tree.

Thecompromise will always be more expensive than either of the suggestions it iscompromising.

Pleasant words are the food of love.

When you ask from a stranger that which is of interest only to yourself, always enclose a stamp