The Shortest distance between two jokes makess a perfect speech.

A child is not a vase to be filled, but a fire to be lit.

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.

The grand essentials of happiness are: something to do something to love, and something to hope for.

Love is the noblest frailty of the of the mind

Only hethat has traveled the road knows where the holes are deep.

So longas a man is angry he cannot be in the right.

Learning without thought is labour lost,thought without learning is perilous.

The onesure way to conciliate a tiger is to allow oneself to be devoured.

Win/winis an attitude, not an outcome.

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.

To err is human; to forgive is divine pathway