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

Youdon't drown by falling in the water. You drown by staying there. Anonymous Agood deal is a state of mind.

Nothingso completely baffles one who is full of trick and duplicity himself, thanstraightforward and simple integrity in another.

Don't throwout the baby with the bath water.

Themost important thing in communication is to hear what isn't being said.

Every kind of peaceful cooperation among men is primarilybased on mutual trust and only secondarily on institutions such as courts ofjustice and police.

Health and Cheerfulness mutually begets each other.

The spokenword belongs half to him who speaks, and half to him who listens.

Most of our so-called reasoning consists in finding arguments for going on believingas we already do.

If pain could have cured us, we should have long ago been saved.

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.

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.