Adversity attracts the man of character. He seeks out the better joy, responsibility.

Themost important thing in communication is to hear what isn't being said.

We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it

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

The ultimate measured a man is not where he stands in marents of comfort, but whre he stands at times of challenge & contraversy.

Do we wish men to be virtuous? Then let us begin by making them love their country.

Even a fish wouldn't get into trouble if it kept its mouth shut.

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

Supicion of one's own motives is especially necessary for the philanthropist and the executive.

Neverforget the power of silence, that massively disconcerting pause which goes onand on and may at last induce an opponent to babble and backtrack nervously.

Between friends there is no need of Justice.

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.