Whenour knowing exceeds our sensing, we will no longer be deceived by theillusions of our senses.

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.

Since God made us to be originals, why stoop to be a copy?

Grantgraciously what you cannot refuse safely and conciliate those you cannotconquer.

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

Most people suspended their judgement till somebody else has expressed his own and then they respect it.

Life is progress from want to want, not from enjoyment to enjoyment.

A half-truth won for ourselves is worth more than a whole truth learned from others.

The Universe is not only queerer that we imagine, it is queered than we can imagine.

Small deeds done are better than great deeds planned

It isn't important to come out on top, what matters is to be the one who comes out alive.

Onlyfree men can negotiate. Prisoners cannot enter into contracts. Your freedomand mine cannot be separated.