The more we see, the more we shall be able to imagine, and the more we imagine, the more we must think we see.

A gem is not polished without rubbing, nor is a man perfected without trials.

Myfather said: you must never try to make all the money that's in a deal. Letthe other fellow make some money too, because if you have a reputation foralways making all the money, you won't have many deals.

Peoplewho are too concerned with how well they are doing will be less successfuland feel less competent than those who focus on the task itself... Somepsychologists call it a conflict between egoorientation,or between extrinsic and intrinsic 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.

Nobody everforgets where he buried the hatchet.

I said to the almond tree, ‘'Friend, speak to me of God,’' and the almond treeblossomed.

Repentance is the attempt of the inner man to return home after wonderful night out

The cause of liberty becomes a mockery if the price to be paid is the wholesale destruction of those who are to enjoy liberty.

When people prophesy, they generally makes the mistake of transforming the past to future.

Misfortuneis not that which can be avoided, but that which cannot.

A man without imagination is like a bird without wings.