Science has promised us truth. It has never promised us either peace or happiness.

Repentance is the attempt of the inner man to return home after wonderful night out

I like to listen. I have learned a great deal from listening carefully. Most peoplenever listen.

Humality is a strange thing. The minute you think you've got it, you've lost it.

Failureto prepare is preparing to fail.

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.

A hero is no braver than anyone else; he is only brave minutes longer

Luck never mad a mad man wise

Far better to think historically, to remember the lessonsof the past. Thus, far better to conceive of power as consisting in part ofthe knowledge of when not to use all the power you have. Far better to be onewho knows that if you reserve the power not to

It is in our idleness, in our dreams, that submerged truth sometimes comes to top.

Power never takes a back step only in the face of morepower.

When I dare to be powerful, to use my strength in theservice of my vision, then it becomes less and less important whether I amafraid.