There is no fate that cannot be surmounted by scorn.

Lookingfor fish? Don't climb a tree.

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.

If your mouth turns into a knife, it will cut off yourlips.

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.

No one wouldtalk much in society; if he knew how often he misunderstands others.

It'sgood to shut up sometimes.

Wisdom requires that we pour a little oil of delicate courtesy on the wheels of friendship.

Power takes as ingratitude the writhing of its victims.

Itmatters not whether you win or lose; what matters is whether I win or lose.

Agrievance is most poignant when almost redressed.

Nature arms each man with some faculty which enables himto do easily some feat impossible to any other.