There ward for always listening when you'd rather be talking is wisdom.

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

Thoroughnesscharacterizes all successful men. Genius is the art of taking infinite pains.All great achievement has been characterized by extreme care, infinitepainstaking, even to the minutest detail.

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

People loan their trust, they don't give it.

We arethe prisoners of ideas.

If absolute power corrupts absolutely, does absolutepowerlessness make you pure?

Show me a man who cannot bother to do little things andI'll show you a man who cannot be trusted to do big things.

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.

We cannot always control our thoughts, but we can control our words, and repetitionimpresses the subconscious, and we are then master of the situation.

Contradictionshould awaken Attention, not Passion.

Even a dog knows the difference between being stumbledover and being kicked.