Human beings are not perfectible. They are improvable.

All that is sometimes needed to make you content with you lot is a bad dream.

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.

Don'tbe afraid of opposition. Remember, a kite rises against, not with, the wind.

If Ishould ever be captured, I want no negotiation—andif I should request a negotiation from captivity they should consider that asign of duress.

Let uswork without disputing. It is the only way to render life tolerable.

Luck never mad a mad man wise

The exercise of power is determined by thousands ofinteractions between the world of the powerful and that of the powerless, allthe more so because these worlds are never divided by a sharp line: everyonehas a small part of himself in both.

The Pursuit of perfection is the persuit of sweetness and light.

When aman says that he approves something in principle, it means he hasn't theslightest intention of putting it in practice.

The most important things are the hardest to say, because words diminish them.

Cooperativeconflict builds people up, strengthens their relationships, and gets thingsdone.