If a man speaks or acts with pure thought, happiness follows him like a shadow that never leaves him

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.

He approaches nearest to the gods who knows how to be silent, even though he is in the right.

Silence is argument carried out by other means.

Without trust, words become the hollow sound of a woodengong. With trust, words become life itself.

Now-a-days women don't hire domestic help-they marry it.

Power is not a means, it is an end. One does not establisha dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolutionin order to establish the dictatorship.

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.

Mensucceed when they realize that their failures are the preparation for theirvictories.

I willprepare and some day my chance will come.

Knowingthat everything's futile but still fighting, still raging against the dying ofthe light that's what motivates me all the time ... If you hold that sense offutility in your head for too long, it can begin to eat into you. You canstill be aware of it

Stoppingat third base adds no more to the score than striking out.