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.

The merit belongs to begineer; should his successor do even more better.

... That may appear as the truth to one personwill often appear as untruth to another person. But that need not worry theseeker. Where there is honest effort, it will be realized that what appearedto be different truths are like the countless and apparen

The good things of life are not to be had singly, but come to us with a mixture; like a school boy's holiday, with a task affixed to the tail of it.

Thereare no secrets. There is no mystery. There is only common sense.

Whenthere is no enemy within, the enemies outside cannot hurt you.

Everyone speaks well of his heart, but no one dares to say it of his dead.

The great despisers are the greater reverers.

I’mwillin’ for any solution — religious, political. I’m not going to keepofferin’ to negotiate so much because they turn us down each time. Itindicates a weakness on our part.

All our rightousnesses are like filthy rags

The cause of liberty becomes a mockery if the price to be paid is the wholesale destruction of those who are to enjoy liberty.

True friendship comes when silence between two people is comfortable