One should never

One should never
One should never rub bottoms with a porcupine.
  

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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 great harmony.
Nothing makes it easier to resist temptation than a proper upbringing, a sound set of values.
Suffering is one very long moment. We cannot divide it by seasons. WE can only record its moods and chronicle their return.
A mistake in judgement isn't fatal, but too much anxiety about judgement is.
Remember not only to say the right thing in the right place, but far more difficultstill, to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment.
If you are distressed by anything external, the pain isnot due to the thing itself but to your own estimate of it; and this you havethe power to revoke at any moment.
Without trust, words become the hollow sound of a woodengong. With trust, words become life itself.
I have learned through bitter experience the one supremelesson to conserve my anger, and as heat conserved is transmitted into energy,even so our anger controlled can be transmitted into a power that can movethe world.
To rule is not so much a question of the heavy hand as the firm seat.
Intelligence is not to make no mistakes, but quickly to see how to make them good.
Misfortuneis not that which can be avoided, but that which cannot.
Aquarrel is like buttermilk: once it's out of the churn, the more you shake it,the more sour it grows.