When aman says that he approves something in principle, it means he hasn't theslightest intention of putting it in practice.

Even a fish wouldn't get into trouble if it kept its mouth shut.

When youcannot make up your mind which of two evenly balanced courses of action youshould take choose the bolder.

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.

A man does not know what he is saying until he knows what he is not saying.

The great despisers are the greater reverers.

Power is not a means, it is an end. One does not establisha dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolutionin order to establish the dictatorship.

Trust only movement. Life happens at the level of events, notof words. Trust movement.

Whenyou plant lettuce, if it does not grow well, you don't blame the lettuce. Youlook for reasons it is not doing well. It may need fertilizer, or more water,or less sun. You never blame the lettuce. Yet if we have problems with ourfriends or our family,

Themost important of life's battles is the one we fight daily in the silentchambers of the soul.

Aquarrel is like buttermilk: once it's out of the churn, the more you shakeit, the more sour it grows.

Civilization is a movement and not a condition, a voyage and not a harbour.