First-rate men employ first-rate men; second-rate men employ third-rate men.

I’mwillin’ for any solution — religious, political. I’m not going to keepofferin’ to negotiate so much because they turn us down each time. Itindicates a weakness on our part.

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

Happiness is the wondrous commodity, the more your give; the more you have.

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 man with the new idea is a crank until the idea succeeds.

A child is not a vase to be filled, but a fire to be lit.

Any man's death diminishes me, because i am involved in mankind; and, therefore, never tend to know for whom the bell tolls. It tolls for thee.

Don'twrestle a pig in a mud hole. You both get all dirty, and the pig enjoys it.

A room without books is a body without soul

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.

Don'thate, it's too big a burden to bear.