When one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world.

A cup is useful only when it is empty; and a mind that is filled with beliefs, with dogmas, with assertions, with quotations, is really an uncreative mind.

We cannot always control our thoughts, but we can control our words, and repetitionimpresses the subconscious, and we are then master of the situation.

I think I could sum up my position on this with therecitation of a brief Russian proverb ‘Doveryai no Proveryai.’ Itmeans trust but verify.

Comedy is an escape, not from the truth but from despair; a narrow escape into faith.

The planers do not make or mar our destiny. we are the makers of our destiny.

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

Reformers are those who educate people to appreciate the things they need.

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.

Far better to think historically, to remember the lessonsof the past. Thus, far better to conceive of power as consisting in part ofthe knowledge of when not to use all the power you have. Far better to be onewho knows that if you reserve the power not to

Onceyou consent to some concession, you can never cancel it and put things backthe way they are.

Pain is the outcome of sin.