The fibers of all things have their tension and are strainedlike the strings of an instrument.

We make our friends, we make our enemies, but God makes our next-door neighbours.

There are questions of real power and then there arequestions of phony authority. You have to break through the phony authorityto begin to fight the real questions of power.

Takeadvantage of the ambiguity in the world. Look at something and think aboutwhat else it might be.

Any child who has parents who are interested in him and has a house full of books isin't poor.

Search not a wound too deep lest thou maketh a new one.

He that is unkind to his own will not be kind to others.

Power, however it has evolved, whatever its origins, willnot be given up without a struggle.

Politeness is to human nature what warmth is to wax.

You gotto be very careful if you don't know where you're going, because you mightnot get there.

Long-rangeplanning works best in the short term.

People whoare too concerned with how well they are doing will be less successful andfeel less competent than those who focus on the task itself... Somepsychologists call it a conflict between egoorientation, or between extrinsicand intrinsic motivation...