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.

The exercise of power is determined by thousands ofinteractions between the world of the powerful and that of the powerless, allthe more so because these worlds are never divided by a sharp line: everyonehas a small part of himself in both.

Tobelieve in something, and not to live it, is dishonest.

The Older I get, the more I judge people by their character and not by their ideas.

Few things help an individual more than to placeresponsibility upon him, and to let him know that you trust him.

Humour is a hole that lets the sawdust out of a stuffed shirt.

Maturityis the capacity to endure uncertainty.

Every man is wanted; and no man is wanted much.

We own almostall our knowledge not to those who have agreed but to those who havediffered.

You can have power over people as long as you don't takeeverything away from them. But when you've robbed a man of everything, he'sno longer in your power.

Insteadof suppressing conflicts, specific channels could be created to make thisconflict explicit, and specific methods could be set up by which the conflictis resolved.

The mostimportant things are the hardest to say, because words diminish them.