Personal responsibility is too fiscal accountability as lovemaking is to a gynaecological examination

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

Laughter is shortest distance between two people.

Astupid act entails doing the work twice over.

Beautiful young people are accidents of nature, Beautiful old people are works of art.

Becausewe focused on the snake, we missed the scorpion.

The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn.

If you climb up a tree, you must climb down the same tree.

Aclosed mind is like a closed book; just a block of wood.

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.

You can have power over people as long as you don't takeeverything away from them. But when you've robbed a man of everything, he'sno longer in your power.

A roundegg can be made square according to how you cut it; words would be harshaccording to how you speak them.