None but the productive can be strong; and none but the strong can be free.

Only the educated are free.

A shipin harbor is safe, but that is not what ships are built for.

Firstkeep the peace within yourself, then you can alsobring peace to others.

Thegalleries are full of critics. They play no ball, they fight no fights. Theymake no mistakes because they attempt nothing. Down in the arena are thedoers. They make mistakes because they try many things. The man who makes nomistakes lacks boldness and

Melancholy is the joy of being said.

When there is no enemy within, the enemies outside cannothurt you.

One ofthe lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and alwaysa clever thing to say.

Politeness is to human nature what warmth is to wax.

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.

Changemeans movement. Movement means friction. Only in the frictionless vacuum of anonexistent abstract world can movement or change occur without that abrasivefriction of conflict.

Only few men think, but all have opinions.