If we shake hands with icy fingures, it is because we have burnt them so horribly before.

Onemust talk little and listen much.

Don'tjudge a book by its cover.

So longas a man is angry he cannot be in the right.

Bargainlike a gypsy, but pay like a gentleman.

Ashes fly back into the face of him who throws them.

The true test of intelligence is not how much people know how to do, but how they behave when they don't know what to do.

Conflictis neither good nor bad. Properly managed, it is absolutely vital.

Power is the faculty or capacity to act, the strength andpotency to accomplish something. It is the vital energy to make choices anddecisions. It also includes the capacity to overcome deeply embedded habitsand to cultivate higher, more effective ones.

Drown not thyself to save a drowning man

Take yourlife into your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing, no one toblame.

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.