To copy is to put an end to creativeness. Unless there is originality, you can do nothing.

Talentalone won't make you a success. Neither will being in the right place at theright time, unless you are ready. The most important question is: 'Are youready?'

The laws of life are founded on necessity, its charms on the non-essentials.

If Igive you an idea, and you give me an idea, we will each have two ideas.

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.

Power is something of which I am convinced there is no innocencethis side of the womb.

The mostdramatic conflicts are perhaps, those that take place not between men butbetween a man and himself where the arena of conflict is a solitary mind.

Never[enter] into dispute or argument with another. I never yet saw an instance ofone of two disputants convincing the other by argument. I have seen many ontheir getting warm, becoming rude and shooting one another.

What wesee depends mainly on what we look for.

Nothing doth more hurt in a state that cunning men pass for wise.

Love is the noblest frailty of the of the mind

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