If wecannot end our differences at least we can make the world safe for diversity.

Flatteryis the infantry of negotiation.

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.

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

Comedy is an escape, not from the truth but from despair; a narrow escape into faith.

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.

To rule is not so much a question of the heavy hand as the firm seat.

Artists can color the sky red because they know its blue.those of us who are not artists must color things the way they really are or people might think we are stupid.

Only the educated are free.

Prayer changes things by changing people.

We arethe prisoners of ideas.

Nine times out of ten, we are disappointed in life because we don't ask enough of it.