Thefibers of all things have their tension and are strained like the strings ofan instrument.

The darkest hour has only 60 minutes

Grantgraciously what you cannot refuse safely and conciliate those you cannotconquer.

Far better to think historically, to remember the lessonsof the past. Thus, far better to conceive of power as consisting in part ofthe knowledge of when not to use all the power you have. Far better to be onewho knows that if you reserve the power not to

Theconventional view serves to protect us from the painful job of thinking.

He who truly knows has no occasion to shout

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.

The Older I get, the more I judge people by their character and not by their ideas.

It wasimpossible to get a conversation going, everybody was talking too much.

When youhave to make a choice and you don't make it, that itself is a choice.

Changemeans movement. Movement means friction. Only in the frictionless vacuum of anonexistent abstract world can movement or change occur without that abrasivefriction of conflict.

I have learned through bitter experience the one supremelesson to conserve my anger, and as heat conserved is transmitted into energy,even so our anger controlled can be transmitted into a power that can movethe world.