The real purpose of books is to trap the mind into doing its own thinking

Comedy is an escape, not from the truth but from despair; a narrow escape into faith.

When youhave to make a choice and you don't make it, that itself is a choice.

What we seek we shall find, what we flee from flee from us.

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 greatharmony.

Alexander's last wrds: Bury my body, dont build any monument. Kip my hand outside,so dat d wrld knws,who won th wrld had noting in hand wen dyin.

Habit: the shackles of the free

Friendship increases in visiting friends, but in visiting them seldom.

Power is not a means, it is an end. One does not establisha dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolutionin order to establish the dictatorship.

Don'tuse a lot where a little will do.

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

When makinga decision of minor importance, I have always found it advantageous toconsider all the pros and cons. In vital matters, however, such as the choiceof a mate or a profession, the decision should come from the unconscious,from somewhere within ou