People aren't just people, they are people surrounded by circumstances.

My character - and for that matter my worst habits - could only be described by someone else. You can't open a box with the crowbar inside it.

The truth is a fog, in which one man sees the heavenly host and the other one sees a flying elephant.

The pen is mightier than the sword ... if the sword is very short, and the pen is very sharp.

The people who really run organizations are usually found several levels down, where it is still possible to get things done.

When millions of tons of angry elephant come spinning through the sky, and there was no one there to hear it, does it - philosopically speaking - make a noise

When people say "clearly" something that means there's a huge crack in their argument and they know things aren't clear at all.