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.

Silenceis as full of potential wisdom and wit as the unshown marble of greatsculpture. The silent bear no witness against themselves.

Thesingle most powerful tool for winning a negotiation is the ability to get upand walk away from the table without a deal.

Happiness is a choice that requires affort at times.

Beautiful young people are accidents of nature, Beautiful old people are works of art.

The desire of appearing clever often prevents our becoming so.

Men are mortal, but ideas are immortal.

Whenyou plant lettuce, if it does not grow well, you don't blame the lettuce. Youlook for reasons it is not doing well. It may need fertilizer, or more water,or less sun. You never blame the lettuce. Yet if we have problems with ourfriends or our family,

Treatpeople as if they were, what they ought to be andyou help them become what they are capable of being.

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

Suffering is one very long moment. We cannot divide it by seasons. WE can only record its moods and chronicle their return.

A state with defective laws will have defective morals.