Agrievance is most poignant when almost redressed.

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.

It doesnot do to leave a Dragon out of your calculations, if you live near him.

I love power. But it is as an artist that I love it. Ilove it as a musician loves his violin, to draw out its sounds and chords andharmonies.

Thepeople to fear are not those who disagree with you, but those who disagreewith you and are too cowardly to let you know.

It isgreed to do all the talking but not to want to listen at all.

To be spiritual is not to reject reason but to go beyond it.

The prevalent fear of poverty among the educated classes is the worst moral disease from which our civilization suffers.

The art of life is the avoiding of pain.

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.

There are two kind of people, those who do the work and those who take the credit. try to be in the first group; there is a less competition there.

Thereare two dilemmas that rattle the human skull: How do you hang on to someone whowon't stay? And how do you get rid of someone who won't go?