The greatest mistake is trying to be more agreeable than you can be.
-- Walter Bagehot AA

At least two-thirds of our miseries spring from human stupidity, human malice and those great motivators and justifiers of malice and stupidity: idealism, dogmatism and proselytizing zeal on behalf of religous or political ideas.
-- Aldous Huxley AA

Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.
-- Robert Frost AA

A complex system that works is invariably found to have evolved from a simple system that works.
-- John Gaule AA