In themiddle of every difficulty lies opportunity.

Artists can color the sky red because they know its blue.those of us who are not artists must color things the way they really are or people might think we are stupid.

If you are patient in a moment of anger, you will escape a hundred days of sorrow.

I have never been able to conceive how any rational beingcould propose happiness to himself from the exercise of power over others.

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.

I hold it to be a proof of great prudence for men toabstain from threats and insulting words toward an enemy, for neither ...diminishes the strength of the enemy; but the one makes him more cautious,and the other increases his hatred of you and makes him

Thetorment of human frustration, whatever its immediate cause,is the knowledge that the self is in prison, its vital force and ‘mangledmind’ leaking away in lonely, wasteful self-conflict.

Knowledge leads to unity, ignorance to diversity.

The more faithfully you listen to the voice withhin you, the batter you will hear what is sounding outside.And only he who listens can speak.

Whenelephants fight, it is the grass who suffers.

Alwaysforgive your enemies. Nothing annoys them so much.

He whois unable to dance says the yard is stony.