Anempty sack cannot stand up.

A status symbol is an instrument you clash when you want someone to know you are there.

The compromisewill always be more expensive than either of the suggestions it iscompromising.

It'snot the plan that is important, it's the planning.

Being virtuous is no feat once temptation ceases.

The summit of happiness is reached when a person is ready to be what he is.

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

Whilewe consider when to begin, it becomes too late.

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.

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 fundamental concept in social science is Power, in thesame sense in which Energy is the fundamental concept in physics.

Without trust, words become the hollow sound of a woodengong. With trust, words become life itself.