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.

Virtue is more clearly shown in the performance of fire actions than in the non-preformance of base ones.

There is no knowledge that is not power.

A peace which depends upon fear is nothing but a suppressed war.

The ultimate measured a man is not where he stands in marents of comfort, but whre he stands at times of challenge & contraversy.

No one was ever really taught by another; each of us has to teach himself.

All your fingernails grow with no convenient speed except broken one.

To like and dislike the same thing, that is, indeed, friendship.

Onehour of thoughtful solitude may nerve the heart for days of conflict girdingup its armor to meet the most insidious foe.

Effectivecommunication is 20 percent what you know and 80 percent how you feel aboutwhat you know.

Power is the faculty or capacity to act, the strength andpotency to accomplish something. It is the vital energy to make choices anddecisions. It also includes the capacity to overcome deeply embedded habitsand to cultivate higher, more effective ones.

Nature arms each man with some faculty which enables himto do easily some feat impossible to any other.