Nothingstrengthens the judgment and quickens the conscience like individualresponsibility.

A shipin harbor is safe, but that is not what ships are built for.

He who asks a question is a fool for five minutes; he who does not ask a questionremains a fool forever.

Concentration of wealth will never be a problem as long as we have those three great institutions for redistributing it: Taxes, wives, offspring.

The leaders who work most effectively, it seems to me,never say ‘I.’ And that's not because they have trainedthemselves not to say ‘I.’ They don't think ‘I.’ Theythink ‘we’; they think ‘team.’ They understand theirjob to be to make the team function. They

Assumptionof cooperative goals leads to viewing the conflict as a common problem to besolved for mutual benefit.

To believe in something, and not to live it, is dishonest.

Life has become a struggle between keeping your weight down and you spirits up.

I love power. But it is as an artist that I love it. Ilove it as a musician loves his violin, to draw out its sounds and chords andharmonies.

It isnot necessary to understand things in order to argue about them.

True, Heavenprohibits certain pleasures; but one can generally negotiate a compromise.

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.