Conflictleads to less-than-adequate performance, resentments, and lack of motivation.

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.

The art of showmanship is to give the public what is wants just before it knows what it wants.

The most exquisite paradox… as soon as you give itall up, you can have it all. As long as you want power, you can't have it.The minute you don't want power, you'll have more than you ever dreamedpossible.

I hold it to be a proof of great prudence for men toabstain from threats and insulting words toward an enemy, for neither ...diminishes the strength of the enemy; but the one makes him more cautious,and the other increases his hatred of you and makes him

The repetition in nature may not be a mere recurrence. It may e a theatrical "encore"

Compromise,n. Such an adjustment of conflicting interests as gives each adversary thesatisfaction of thinking he has got what he ought not to have, and isdeprived of nothing except what was justly his due.

Modesty is the clothing of talent.

Between grief and nothing I will take Grief.

Write injuries in dust, benefits in marble.

Character is a by-product; it is produced in the great manufacture of daily duty.

In God we trust; all others pay cash.