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.

The loftierthe building the deeper the foundation must be.

Responsibility is the high price of self-ownership.

There are three faithful friends; and old wife, an old dog and ready money.

People loan their trust, they don't give it.

Why don'tyou want to do what you know you should do? The reason you don't is thatyou're in conflict with yourself.

You can't unscramble an egg.

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

So longas a man is angry he cannot be in the right.

Do not wrong or hate your neighbor for it is not hethat you wrong but yourself.

We thought, because we had power, we had wisdom.

Fromlittle acorns mighty oaks do grow.