Thedirect use of force is such a poor solution to any problem,it is generally employed only by small children and large nations.

He who hurriescannot walk with dignity.

If you climb up a tree, you must climb down the same tree.

The mostdramatic conflicts are perhaps, those that take place not between men butbetween a man and himself where the arena of conflict is a solitary mind.

No country without an atom bomb could properly consider itself independet.

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.

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

Everyoneis kneaded out of the same dough but not baked in the same oven.

Thetrouble with talking too fast is you may say something you haven't thought ofyet.

It wasimpossible to get a conversation going, everybody was talking too much.

Ifyou are leaning over to starboard to balance the boat against the other guy'spropensity to lean too far to port, both of you are about to get wet.

Knowingthat everything's futile but still fighting, still raging against the dying ofthe light that's what motivates me all the time ... If you hold that sense offutility in your head for too long, it can begin to eat into you. You canstill be aware of it