Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did andit never will.

Use softwords and hard arguments.

Habit: the shackles of the free

You gotto be very careful if you don't know where you're going, because you mightnot get there.

In themiddle of every difficulty lies opportunity.

Don'tcut off your nose to spite your face.

When angry, count to ten before you speak; if very angry ahundred.

The greatest job of teachers is to cultivate talent until it ripens for the public to reap its bounty.

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.

There'sno need to fear the wind if your haystacks are tied down.

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 greatest trust between man and man is the trust ofgiving counsel.