There is no knowledge that is not power.

Years wrinkle the face, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul.

Of all human foibles love of living is the most powerful.

Nothing destroys authority more than the unequal and untimelyinterchange of power stretched too far and relaxed too much.

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.

My greenthumb came only as a result of the mistakes I made while learning to seethings from the plant's point of view.

Greatideas often receive violent opposition from mediocre minds.

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.

Acreaking door hangs long on its hinges.

Thecourts of this country should not be the places where resolution of disputesbegins. They should be the places where the disputes end after alternativemethods of resolving disputes have been considered and tried.

Neverforget the power of silence, that massively disconcerting pause which goes onand on and may at last induce an opponent to babble and backtrack nervously.

Charlie Chaplin said"Life laughs at u when u are unhappy Life smiles at u when u are happy But, Life salutes u when u make others happy"