“Sometimes lying was the better part of valor and the only way to save a man’s butt.”

“Sometimes there's not a better way. Sometimes there's only the hard way.”

“Never a man unblemished virtue shows,
Save when he is the butt of fortune's blows.”

“Zaphod did not want to tangle with them and, deciding that just as discretion is the better part of valor, so was cowardice is the better part of discretion, he valiantly hid himself in a closet.”

“Alanna didn't approve of lying, but in a pinch a lie was sometimes better than the truth.”

“It's all connected. When you save any part of the world, you've saved the whole world. In fact, that's the only way it can be done.”

“Forgiveness is the better part of valor. (Acheron)
I always thought it was ‘discretion.’ (Thanatos)
Discretion is easy. It’s finding the courage to forgive yourself and others that is hard. (Acheron)”

“Sometimes you’re the only one that can save yourself; for no one is coming to save you.”

“The happiest part of a man's life is what he passes lying awake in bed in the morning.”

“All living things contain a measure of madness that moves them in strange, sometimes inexplicable ways. This madness can be saving; it is part and parcel of the ability to adapt. Without it, no species would survive.”