Prayer changes things by changing people.

Knowingthat everything's futile but still fighting, still raging against the dying ofthe light that's what motivates me all the time ... If you hold that sense offutility in your head for too long, it can begin to eat into you. You canstill be aware of it

As longas you keep a person down, some part of you has to be down there to hold himdown, so it means you cannot soar as you otherwise might.

Ifanyone is not willing to accept your point of view, try to see his point of view.

Creation is only the projection into form of that which already exists.

One cannot be precise and still be pure.

Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerfuland the powerless means to side with the powerful, not to be neutral.

Thesingle most powerful tool for winning a negotiation is the ability to get upand walk away from the table without a deal.

There isnothing so disagreeable, that a patient mind cannot find some solace for it.

Suspicion begets suspicion.

In oneof our concert grand pianos, 243 taut strings exert a pull of 40,000 poundson an iron frame. It is proof that out of great tension may come great harmony.

The Truly free man is one who know how to decline an invitation without giving an excuse.