You don'thave to worry about being bit if the dog doesn't have any teeth. Success hasmade failures of many men.

Who digs a pit for others will fall in themselves.

Two man looks out through the same bars: the one sees the mud, the one the stars.

By despising all that has preceded us, we teach others to despise ourselves.

Money is what things run into and people run out of

He whois unable to dance says the yard is stony.

Thepast is malleable and flexible, changing as our recollection interprets andre-explains what has happened.

The exercise of power is determined by thousands ofinteractions between the world of the powerful and that of the powerless, allthe more so because these worlds are never divided by a sharp line: everyonehas a small part of himself in both.

Power is no blessing in itself, except when it is used toprotect the innocent.

Whatlies behind you and what lies in front of you, pales in comparison to whatlies inside of you.

Happiness is the art of making a bouquet of those flowers within reach.

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.