Greatideas often receive violent opposition from mediocre minds.

It is throughcooperation, rather than conflict, that your greatest successes will bederived.

Takeadvantage of the ambiguity in the world. Look at something and think aboutwhat else it might be.

One must be fond of people and trust them if one is not tomake a mess of life.

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.

The greatest virtue of man is perhaps curiosity.

There is something monstrous in commands couched in invented and unfamiliar language, an alien master is the worst of all. The language of the law must not be foreign to the ears of those who are to obey it.

Prayer 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.

Onemust talk little and listen much.

Drown not thyself to save a drowning man

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