A barking dog is often more useful than a sleeping lion.

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.

There is no evil in the atoms, only in men's souls.

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.

Onelearns by doing the thing; for though you think you know it, you have nocertainty until you try.

A peace which depends upon fear is nothing but a suppressed war.

Since God made us to be originals, why stoop to be a copy?

It'sgood to shut up sometimes.

Constant repetition carries conviction.

Sometimesyou have to be silent to be heard.

Thereis nothing more likely to start disagreement among people or countries thanan agreement.

Any man's death diminishes me, because i am involved in mankind; and, therefore, never tend to know for whom the bell tolls. It tolls for thee.