Do good to your friend to keep him, and to your enemy to make him your freind.

I haveoften regretted my speech, never my silence.

Consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds.

A status symbol is an instrument you clash when you want someone to know you are there.

It'snot the plan that is important, it's the planning.

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.

Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet.

Don'tput all your eggs in one basket.

The possession of power over others in inherently destructiveboth to the possessor of the power and to those over whom it is exercised.

Thedirect use of force is such a poor solution to any problem,it is generally employed only by small children and large nations.

Power is the faculty or capacity to act, the strength andpotency to accomplish something. It is the vital energy to make choices anddecisions. It also includes the capacity to overcome deeply embedded habitsand to cultivate higher, more effective ones.

I have never been able to conceive how any rational beingcould propose happiness to himself from the exercise of power over others.