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

The king goes as far as he may, not as far as he could.

Man's life would be wretched and confined if it were to missthe candid intimacy developed by mutual trust and esteem.

Nothing destroys authority more than the unequal and untimelyinterchange of power stretched too far and relaxed too much.

Optimists and pessimists have one fault in common: they are afraid of the truth.

Decisionis the spark that ignites action. Until a decision is made, nothinghappens.... Decision is the courageous facing of issues, knowing that if theyare not faced, problems will remain forever unanswered.

The split in you is clear. There is a part of you that knows what it shoulddo, and a part that does what it feels like doing.

Get someone else to blow your horn and the sound will carry twice as far.

Learning without thought is labour lost,thought without learning is perilous.

Don't throwout the baby with the bath water.

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.

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.