To startblindly with a statement is a sign of arrogance and narrow-mindedness, andwill lead to conflict. To start blindly with a question is a sign ofuncertainty and honesty, and will lead to wisdom.

A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.

Commonsense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.

Ifyou are leaning over to starboard to balance the boat against the other guy'spropensity to lean too far to port, both of you are about to get wet.

Knowingthat everything's futile but still fighting, still raging against the dying ofthe light that's what motivates me all the time ... If you hold that sense offutility in your head for too long, it can begin to eat into you. You canstill be aware of it

You made your bed, now lie in it.

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.

As longas you keep a person down, some part of you has to be down there to hold himdown, so it means you cannot soar as you otherwise might.

Power is like being a lady... if you have to tell peopleyou are, you aren't.

Standingin the middle of the road is very dangerous; you get knocked down by thetraffic from both sides.

Sometimes the man of action is the fellow who has just got both his feat in hot water.

Life imitates art far more that art imitates life.