“One may understand the cosmos, but never the ego; the self is more distant than any star”

“A man can never quite understand a boy, even when he has been a boy”

“Compromise used to mean that half a loaf was better than no bread. Among modern statesmen it really seems to mean that half a loaf is better than a whole loaf”

“It isn't that they can't see the solution. It's that they can't see the problem”

“I shall argue that strong men, conversely, know when to compromise and that all principles can be compromised to serve a greater principle”

“A mediocre mind thinks it writes divinely; a good mind thinks it writes reasonably”