There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.

No man everdid a designed injury to another, but at the same time he did a greater tohimself .

Don't wrestlea pig in a mud hole. You both get all dirty, and the pig enjoys it.

It isnot necessary to understand things in order to argue about them.

I hope our wisdom will grow with our power, and teach us,that the less we use our power the greater it will be.

Melancholy is the joy of being said.

Onemight as well try to ride two horses moving in different directions, as totry to maintain in equal force two opposing or contradictory sets of desires.

You only have power over people so long as you don't takeeverything away from them. But when you've robbed a man of everything he's nolonger in your power he's free again.

Thetruth is that our finest moments are most likely to occur when we are feelingdeeply uncomfortable, unhappy, or unfulfilled. For it is only in suchmoments, propelled by our discomfort, that we are likely to step out of ourruts and start searching for di

When youcannot make up your mind which of two evenly balanced courses of action youshould take choose the bolder.

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.

Duty largely consists of pretending that the trivial is critical