No strength within, no respect without.

Instinct is the nose of the mind.

Hearme, my chiefs! I am tired. My heart is sick and sad. From where the sun nowstands, I will fight no more forever.

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.

Useful manual labour, intelligently performed is the means per excellence for developing the intellect.

One of the difficult things to give away is kindness - is usually returned

We thought, because we had power, we had wisdom.

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.

Ignorancedoesn't kill you, but it does make you sweat a lot.

The man who says he's too old to learn new tricks probably always was.

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

Silenceis as full of potential wisdom and wit as the unshown marble of greatsculpture. The silent bear no witness against themselves.