Life imitates art far more that art imitates life.

Keep things informal. Talking is the natural way to do business. Writing is greatfor keeping records and putting down details, but talk generates ideas. Greatthings come from our luncheon meetings which consist of a sandwich, a cup ofsoup, and a good idea

Show me a man who cannot bother to do little things andI'll show you a man who cannot be trusted to do big things.

Takeadvantage of the ambiguity in the world. Look at something and think aboutwhat else it might be.

The cause of liberty becomes a mockery if the price to be paid is the wholesale destruction of those who are to enjoy liberty.

Twoprisoners whose cells adjoin communicate with each other by knocking on thewall. The wall is the thing which separates them but is also their means ofcommunication. It is the same with us and God. Every separation is a link.

It isthe acid test of nonviolence that in a nonviolent conflict there is no rancorleft behind, and in the end the enemies are converted into friends.

I have never been able to conceive how any rational beingcould propose happiness to himself from the exercise of power over others.

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.

No man everdid a designed injury to another, but at the same time he did a greater tohimself .

Assumptionof cooperative goals leads to viewing the conflict as a common problem to besolved for mutual benefit.

When your work speaks for itself,don't interrupt.