Compromise,n. 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.

you cannot establish sound security on borrowed money

Theloftier the building the deeper the foundation must be.

Between grief and nothing I will take Grief.

A shipin harbor is safe, but that is not what ships arebuilt for.

Thetorment of human frustration, whatever its immediate cause,is the knowledge that the self is in prison, its vital force and ‘mangledmind’ leaking away in lonely, wasteful self-conflict.

It isgreed to do all the talking but not to want to listen at all.

There is no knowledge that is not power.

I hope our wisdom will grow with our power, and teach us,that the less we use our power the greater it will be.

Whenyou plant lettuce, if it does not grow well, you don't blame the lettuce. Youlook for reasons it is not doing well. It may need fertilizer, or more water,or less sun. You never blame the lettuce. Yet if we have problems with ourfriends or our family,

Ideal society is a drama enacted exclusively in the imagination

As long as there is life there is danger.