Maturityis the capacity to endure uncertainty.

A good listener is not someone with nothing to say. A good listener is a good talkerwith a sore throat.

We willbe known by the tracks we leave behind.

Prayer changes things by changing people.

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

Thereverse side also has a reverse side.

Sometimesyou have to be silent to be heard.

Thedifficult part in an argument is not to defend one's opinion, but rather toknow it.

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.

Light is good in whatever lamp it may burn; even as a rose is beautiful in whatever garden it may bloom.

I think I could sum up my position on this with therecitation of a brief Russian proverb ‘Doveryai no Proveryai.’ Itmeans trust but verify.

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