As longas you keep a person down, some part of you has to be down there to hold himdown, so it means you cannot soar as you otherwise might.

Two prisonerswhose cells adjoin communicate with each other by knocking on the wall. Thewall is the thing which separates them but is also their means ofcommunication. It is the same with us and God. Every separation is a link.

Conscientious men are, almost everywhere, less encouraged than less to lerated.

We mustbe part of the general staff at the inception, rather than the ambulancedrivers at the bitter end.

No country without an atom bomb could properly consider itself independet.

Always the dullness of the fool is the whetstone of the wits

Thisduality has been reflected in classical as well as modern literature asreason versus passion, or mind versus intuition. The split between the ‘conscious’mind and the ‘unconscious.’ There are moments in each of ourlives when our verbal-intellect sugges

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.

Half of the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important

The hand of liberality is stronger than the arm of power.

Wisdom requires that we pour a little oil of delicate courtesy on the wheels of friendship.

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