Nothing has happend to you unless you make much of it.

Buyingis cheaper than asking.

To believein something, and not to live it, is dishonest.

Speak whenyou are angry and you will make the best speech you will ever regret.

Artists can color the sky red because they know its blue.those of us who are not artists must color things the way they really are or people might think we are stupid.

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 exercise of power is determined by thousands ofinteractions between the world of the powerful and that of the powerless, allthe more so because these worlds are never divided by a sharp line: everyonehas a small part of himself in both.

There is no passion in life as intense as the desire to change someone else's draft.

Men of genius are admired, men of wealth are envied, menof power are feared; but only men of character are trusted.

The hardeststep is over the threshold.

Folly is perennial and yet the human race has survived

Politeness is to human nature what warmth is to wax.