It isn't important to come out on top, what matters is to be the one who comes out alive.

The amount of effort put into a campaign by a worker expands in proportion to the personal benefits that he will derive from his party's victory.

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.

Worry is a circle of inefficient thoughts whirling about a point of fear.

To teach isto learn twice.

A happy family is but an earlier heaven.

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

Responsibility is the high price of self-ownership.

A newbroom sweeps clean, but an old broom knows the corners.

When our hearts are empty, we collect things.

Ourlives are not dependent on whether or not we have conflict. It is what we dowith conflict that makes the difference.

There isnothing more likely to start disagreement among people or countries than anagreement.