Quarrelsend, but words once spoken never die.

The greatest prayer is patience.

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

In thefield of observation, chance favors only theprepared minds.

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.

There are two kind of people, those who do the work and those who take the credit. try to be in the first group; there is a less competition there.

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

It ishard to change our point of view in a conflict. Most often, it is because weare not nearly as interested in resolving the conflict and possibly creatinga new ‘pearl’ as we are in being right.

In art, as in love, instinct is enogh.

Whenyou cannot make up your mind which of two evenly balanced courses of actionyou should take choose the bolder.

Thenumber one goal in resolving a conflict is to make sure both sides maintaintheir self-esteem.

Silenceis argument carried out by other means.