If Ishould ever be captured, I want no negotiation—and if I should request anegotiation from captivity they should consider that a sign of duress.

This dualityhas been reflected in classical as well as modern literature as reason versuspassion, or mind versus intuition. The split between the ‘conscious’ mind andthe ‘unconscious.’ There are moments in each of our lives when ourverbal-intellect sugges

Learning, the destroyer of arrogance, begets arrogance in fools, even as light that illumines the eye, makes owls blind.

God has created the world in play.

Men of genius are admired, men of wealth are envied, menof power are feared; but only men of character are trusted.

Where love rules, there is no will to power; and wherepower predominates, there love is lacking. The one is the shadow of theother.

The good rain like a bad preacher, does not know when to leave off.

Life, Like a child, laughs shaking its rattle of death as it runs.

Themost important trip you may take in life is meeting people half way.

It's notthe size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.

He is poor indeed that can promise nothing.

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.