Compromise.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.

Outside noisy, inside empty.

One cannot be precise and still be pure.

The young man knows the rules, but the old man knows the exceptions.

Insteadof suppressing conflicts, specific channels could be created to make thisconflict explicit, and specific methods could be set up by which the conflictis resolved.

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 deeper the waters are, the more still they run.

Thegalleries are full of critics. They play no ball, they fight no fights. Theymake no mistakes because they attempt nothing. Down in the arena are thedoers. They make mistakes because they try many things. The man who makes nomistakes lacks boldness and

A book is a mirror; if an ass peers into it, you can't expect an apostle to peer out.

One of the difficult things to give away is kindness - is usually returned

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

A lost battle is a battle one thinks one has lost.