Alwaysforgive your enemies. Nothing annoys them so much.

There is a sweet joy that comes to us after sorrow.

Years wrinkle the face, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul.

No man is the whole himself; his friends are the rest of him.

Accomplishmentof purpose is better than making a profit.

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 takes as ingratitude the writhing of its victims.

One hallmark of freedom is the sound of laughter.

The man with the new idea is a crank until the idea succeeds.

We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it

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.

A language is like living skin itself.