Negotiatingin the classic diplomatic sense assumes parties are more anxious to agreethan to disagree.

You don'trun twenty-six miles at five minutes a mile on good looks and a secretrecipe.

Reformers are those who educate people to appreciate the things they need.

The ability to speak eloquently is not to be confused with having something tosay.

Dealwith the faults of others as gently as with your own.

If Ishould ever be captured, I want no negotiation—and if I should request anegotiation from captivity they should consider that a sign of duress.

Happinessis the only sanction of life; where happiness fails, existence remains a madand lamentable experiment.

Bekind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.

To ask advice is in nine cases out of ten tout for flattery.

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

A teleision set is like a toaster. You press a button and the same thing pops up almost every time.

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