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.

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.

Almost all four faults are more pardonable than the methods we think up to hide them

The exercise of power is determined by thousands ofinteractions between the world of the powerful and that of the powerless, allthe more so because these worlds are never divided by a sharp line: everyonehas a small part of himself in both.

If pain could have cured us, we should have long ago been saved.

Power comes from sincere service

Philosophy may describe unreason, as it may describe force; it cannot hope to refute them.

The purpose of getting power is to be able to give itaway.

It is long and hard and painful to create life; it is short and easy to steal the life others have made.

Don'tjudge a book by its cover.

Any general statement is like a cheque drawn on a bank. Its value depends on what is there to meet it.

Thepast is malleable and flexible, changing as our recollection interprets andre-explains what has happened.