To pushadvantages too far is neither generous nor just.

My fathersaid: you must never try to make all the money that's in a deal. Let theother fellow make some money too, because if you have a reputation for alwaysmaking all the money, you won't have many deals.

If power is for sale, sell your mother to buy it. You canalways buy her back again.

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.

Don'thate, it's too big a burden to bear.

You can not help men permanantly by doing for them what they could do for themselves

Thereis nothing more likely to start disagreement among people or countries thanan agreement.

Muchtalking is the cause of danger. Silence is the means of avoiding misfortune.The talkative parrot is shut up in a cage. Other birds, without speech, flyfreely about.

Ignorance is a bold, and knowledge reserved

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

Be slow of tounge and quick of eye.

The greatest prayer is patience.