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.

Am Inot destroying my enemies when I make friends of them?

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

Youdon't have to worry about being bit if the dog doesn't have any teeth.Success has made failures of many men.

Genius is a long impatience.

Pessimism, when you get used to it, is just as agreeable as optimism.

We make our friends, we make our enemies, but God makes our next-door neighbours.

A manshould never be ashamed to own he has been in the wrong, which is but saying,in other words, that he is wiser today than he was yesterday.

... 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

Treat peopleas if they were what they ought to be and you help them to become what theyare capable of being.

Almost all of our relationships begin and most of them continue as forms of mutual exploitation, a mental or physical barter, to be terminated when one or both parties run out of goods.

Life without the Courage is death for slavery.