Friendship increases in visiting friends, but in visiting them seldom.

It's more shameful to mistrust one's friends than to be deceived by them.

Thetime to repair the roof is when the sun is shining.

Success is often the result of taking a mis-step in the right direction.

Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

Letevery eye negotiate for itself, and trust no agent.

Whateverfailures I have known, whatever errors I have committed, whatever follies Ihave witnessed in private and public life have been the consequence of actionwithout thought.

Even a dog knows the difference between being stumbledover and being kicked.

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.

Don'twrestle a pig in a mud hole. You both get all dirty, and the pig enjoys it.

Thisduality has been reflected in classical as well as modern literature asreason versus passion, or mind versus intuition. The split between the ‘conscious’mind and the ‘unconscious.’ There are moments in each of ourlives when our verbal-intellect sugges

He who asks questions cannot avoid the answers.