It is a strange desire, to seek power, and to loseliberty; or to seek power over others, and to lose power over a man's self.

If an enemyis annoying you by playing well, consider adopting his strategy.

Knowingthat everything's futile but still fighting, still raging against the dying ofthe light that's what motivates me all the time ... If you hold that sense offutility in your head for too long, it can begin to eat into you. You canstill be aware of it

Parents these days scarcely bring up children; they finance them.

To know the pains of power, we must go to those who haveit; to know its pleasures, we must go to those who are seeking it.

An expert is a man, who dosent has all the answers, but he is sure that if that he is given enough money he can find them.

One of the function of intelligence is to take account of the dangers that come from trusting solely to the intelligence.

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.

It ishard to change our point of view in a conflict. Most often, it is because weare not nearly as interested in resolving the conflict and possibly creatinga new ‘pearl’ as we are in being right.

Evena sheet of paper has two sides.

In thefield of observation, chance favors only theprepared minds.

The fibers of all things have their tension and are strainedlike the strings of an instrument.