Alexander's last wrds: Bury my body, dont build any monument. Kip my hand outside,so dat d wrld knws,who won th wrld had noting in hand wen dyin.

He who asks a question is a fool for five minutes; he who does not ask a questionremains a fool forever.

We think too small. Like the frog at the bottom of the well. He thinks the sky is only as big as the top of the well. If he surfaced, he would have an entirely different view.

Conflictcan be seen as a gift of energy, in which neither sideloses and a new dance is created.

If you get to thinking you're a person of some influence,try ordering somebody else's dog around.

Conflictinvolves incompatible behaviors rather than competitive goals.

I know youbelieve you understand what you think I said, but I'm not sure you realizethat what you heard isn't what I meant.

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.

Badplanning on your part does not constitute an emergency on my part.

Power doesn't corrupt people, people corrupt power.

Far better to think historically, to remember the lessonsof the past. Thus, far better to conceive of power as consisting in part ofthe knowledge of when not to use all the power you have. Far better to be onewho knows that if you reserve the power not to

To ease another's heartache is to forget one's own.