The cliche that education never ends virtually ensures that it does'nt begin.

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.

No onecan persuade another to change. Each of us guards a gate of change that canonly be opened from the inside. We cannot open the gate of another, either byargument or emotional appeal.

To understand everything is to forgive everything.

Stability is not immobility

You may be deceived if you trust too much, but you willlive in torment if you don't trust enough.

Happiness is a choice that requires affort at times.

A mistake in judgement isn't fatal, but too much anxiety about judgement is.

Girls .. . were allowed to play in the house . . . and boys were sent outdoors. . .Boys ran around in the yard with toy guns going kksshh-kksshh,fighting wars for made-up reasons and arguing about whowas dead, while girls stayed inside and played with dol

It's good to shut up sometimes.

Power is not a means, it is an end. One does not establisha dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolutionin order to establish the dictatorship.

All the power that we exercise over others depends on thepower we exercise over ourselves.