Itmatters not whether you win or lose; what matters is whether I win or lose.

If your mouth turns into a knife, it will cut off yourlips.

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.

Thefibers of all things have their tension and are strained like the strings ofan instrument.

The most successful man in the life is the man who has the best information.

You can not do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late.

Compromise.Such an adjustment of conflicting interests as gives each adversary thesatisfaction of thinking he has got what he ought not to have, and isdeprived of nothing except what was justly his due.

Health and Cheerfulness mutually begets each other.

The Universe is not only queerer that we imagine, it is queered than we can imagine.

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

Man show their character in nothing more clearly than by what they think laughable.