Twobirds disputed about a kernel, when a third swooped down and carried it off.

Aproblem is a chance for you to do your best.

When aman says that he approves something in principle, it means he hasn't theslightest intention of putting it in practice.

Fate chooses our relatives, We choose our friends.

To be simple is the best thing in the world; to be modest is the next best thing. I am not so sure about being quiet.

Onlywhen you can be extremely pliable and soft can you be extremely hard andstrong.

Kindness is a language which the deaf can hear and a blind can read.

The great despisers are the greater reverers.

Far better to think historically, to remember the lessonsof the past. Thus, far better to conceive of power as consisting in part ofthe knowledge of when not to use all the power you have. Far better to be onewho knows that if you reserve the power not to

Prayrer changes things by changing people.

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.

Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerfuland the powerless means to side with the powerful, not to be neutral.