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.

Thepast is malleable and flexible, changing as our recollection interprets andre-explains what has happened.

There is no comparison between that which is last by not succeding and that what is last by not trying.

It is mark of a good man not to know how to do an injury.

The average man’s life consists of: Twenty years of having his mother ask him where he is going, Forty years of having his wife ask the same question; and at the end, the mourners wondering too.

Peoplewho are only good with hammers see every problem as a nail.

Malice drinketh its own poison.

All your fingernails grow with no convenient speed except broken one.

Quite often good things have hurtful consequnces. There are instances of men who have been ruined by their money or killed by their courage.

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

Duty largely consists of pretending that the trivial is critical

A man is but a product of his thoughts; what he thinks, that he becomes