Win a little now, hold your ground, and later win a little more. Politeness is the poison of collaboration. Science is a method to keep yourself from kidding yourself. The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good. No thoroughly occupied man was ever yet very miserable.
Ambition is but avarice on stilts and masked.
As novices, we think we're entirely responsible for the way people treat us. I have long since learned that we are responsible only for the way we treat people. Happiness is something that comes into our lives through doors we don't even remember leaving open. Doing nothing is better than being busy doing nothing. The greatest administrators do not achieve production through constraints and limitations.