I know you believe you understand what you think I said, but I'm not sure yourealize that what you heard isn't what I meant.

No matter how good the idea of the other fellow may be, there is always a better one !

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.

The king goes as far as he may, not as far as he could.

Stability is not immobility

Night is the blotting paper of many sorrows.

Whenelephants fight, it is the grass who suffers.

All the power that we exercise over others depends on thepower we exercise over ourselves.

A man's ruin lies in his tongue.

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.

DonÆt let life discourage you; everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was

Contradictionshould awaken Attention, not Passion.