A child is not a vase to be filled, but a fire to be lit.

If you can't love visible people, then how can u love invisible God. - Mother teresa

The most imaginative people are the most credulous, for to them everything is possible.

The sole advantage of power is that you can do more good.

The weaknesses of many make leader possible.

Years wrinkle the face, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul.

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.

A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.

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

The average man’s life consists of: Twenty years of having his mother ask him where he is going, Forty years of having his wife ask the same question; and at the end, the mourners wondering too.

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.

Thetrouble with talking too fast is you may say something you haven't thought ofyet.