In themiddle of every difficulty lies opportunity.

You're ina much better position to talk with people when they approach you than whenyou approach them.

There ward for always listening when you'd rather be talking is wisdom.

A caricature is always ture only for an instant.

In loving, you lean on some one to hold him up.

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.

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.

Without trust, words become the hollow sound of a woodengong. With trust, words become life itself.

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

We cannot always control our thoughts, but we can control our words, and repetitionimpresses the subconscious, and we are then master of the situation.

Whilewe consider when to begin, it becomes too late.

Pleasure is by no means an infallible critical guide, but it is the least fallible.