Silenceis the mother of truth.

To startblindly with a statement is a sign of arrogance and narrow-mindedness, andwill lead to conflict. To start blindly with a question is a sign ofuncertainty and honesty, and will lead to wisdom.

Light is good in whatever lamp it may burn; even as a rose is beautiful in whatever garden it may bloom.

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.

Goodcommunication is as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard to sleepafter.

Power is not revealed by striking hard or often, but bystriking true.

No man everdid a designed injury to another, but at the same time he did a greater tohimself .

You don'thave to worry about being bit if the dog doesn't have any teeth. Success hasmade failures of many men.

Themost dramatic conflicts are perhaps, those that take place not between menbut between a man and himselfwhere the arena of conflict is a solitary mind.

The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn.

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.

Inbusiness, you don't get what you deserve, you get what you negotiate.