If you would know what nobody knows, read what everybody reads just after one year afterwards.

He who is unable to dance says the yard is stony.

I love power. But it is as an artist that I love it. Ilove it as a musician loves his violin, to draw out its sounds and chords andharmonies.

If speakingis silver, then listening is gold.

The thoughts that come often unsought, and as it were, drop into the mind, are commonly the most valuable of any we 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 greatharmony.

A mistake in judgement isn't fatal, but too much anxiety about judgement is.

Power is something of which I am convinced there is no innocencethis side of the womb.

Sweet is pleasure after pain

Allthings at first appear difficult.

This dualityhas been reflected in classical as well as modern literature as reason versuspassion, or mind versus intuition. The split between the ‘conscious’ mind andthe ‘unconscious.’ There are moments in each of our lives when ourverbal-intellect sugges

A book, tight shut, is but a block of paper.