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 man with the new idea is a crank until the idea succeeds.

Only freemen can negotiate. Prisoners cannot enter into contracts. Your freedom andmine cannot be separated.

You may give gifts without caring, but you can't care without giving

The best prophet is common sense, our native wit.

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

The onesure way to conciliate a tiger is to allow oneself to be devoured.

Bargainlike a gypsy, but pay like a gentleman.

Beon a horse when you go in search of a better one.

Power tires only those who do not have it.

No onecan persuade another to change. Each of us guards a gate of change that canonly be opened from the inside. We cannot open the gate of another, either byargument or emotional appeal.

Contradictionshould awaken Attention, not Passion.