Liberation is not deliverance.

A fly beforehis own eye is bigger than an elephant in the next field.

Talk back to your internal critic. Train yourself to recognize and write downcritical thoughts as they go through your mind. Learn why these thoughts areuntrue and practice talking and writing back to them.

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

Whenyou plant lettuce, if it does not grow well, you don't blame the lettuce. Youlook for reasons it is not doing well. It may need fertilizer, or more water,or less sun. You never blame the lettuce. Yet if we have problems with ourfriends or our family,

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.

Outside noisy, inside empty.

As we grow old...the beauty steals inwards.

Drowning problems in an ocean of information is not the same as solving them.

History is the witness of the times, the light of truth.

Write injuries in dust, benefits in marble.

The leaders who work most effectively, it seems to me,never say ‘I.’ And that's not because they have trainedthemselves not to say ‘I.’ They don't think ‘I.’ Theythink ‘we’; they think ‘team.’ They understand theirjob to be to make the team function. They