Politeness is to human nature what warmth is to wax.

My greenthumb came only as a result of the mistakes I made while learning to seethings from the plant's point of view.

If Ishould ever be captured, I want no negotiation—andif I should request a negotiation from captivity they should consider that asign of duress.

Sciencecannot resolve moral conflicts, but it can help to more accurately frame thedebates about those conflicts.

We'reeyeball to eyeball and the other fellow just blinked.

As a final incentive before giving up a

True friendship comes when silence between two people is comfortable

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

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.

A peace which depends upon fear is nothing but a suppressed war.

Finance is the art of passing currency from hand to hand until it finally disappears.

Do not judge, and you will never be mistaken