Commitmentin the face of conflict produces character.

Can we do good to the world? In an absolute sense, no; in a relative sense, yes.

If Ihad six hours to chop down a tree, I'd spend the first hour sharpening the ax.

Those who trust us educate us.

Whenyou plant lettuce, if it does not grow well, you don't blame the lettuce. Youlook for reasons it is not doing well. It may need fertilizer, or more water,or less sun. You never blame the lettuce. Yet if we have problems with ourfriends or our family,

Thepeak efficiency of knowledge and strategy is to make conflict unnecessary.

Patience is something you admire in the driver behind you and scorn in the one ahead.

Aquarrel is like buttermilk: once it's out of the churn, the more you shake it,the more sour it grows.

Power is not a means, it is an end. One does not establisha dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolutionin order to establish the dictatorship.

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 thought, because we had power, we had wisdom.

The Pursuit of perfection is the persuit of sweetness and light.