Quite often good things have hurtful consequnces. There are instances of men who have been ruined by their money or killed by their courage.

If you are patient in a moment of anger, you will escape a hundred days of sorrow.

Much learning does not teach understanding.

When you choose the lesses of two evils always remember there is still an evil.

Astupid act entails doing the work twice over.

Prepareby knowing your walk away [conditions] and by building the number ofvariables you can work with during the negotiation... you need to have a walkaway... a combination of price, terms, and deliverables that represents theleast you will accept. Witho

Take yourlife into your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing, no one toblame.

The good things of life are not to be had singly, but come to us with a mixture; like a school boy's holiday, with a task affixed to the tail of it.

WheneverI hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried onhim personally.

Never answer a letter while you are angry.

Ninety-ninepercent of all problems in communications start with misunderstandings whichdevelop as a result of differing viewpoints and conditioning.

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.