By despising all that has preceded us, we teach others to despise ourselves.

Patience is the art of hoping.

Ideal society is a drama enacted exclusively in the imagination

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.

Opportunists take now for an answer.

Onceyou consent to some concession, you can never cancel it and put things backthe way they are.

Resolvingconflict is rarely about who is right. It is about acknowledgment andappreciation of differences.

Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up.

Effectivecommunication is 20 percent what you know and 80 percent how you feel aboutwhat you know.

A good listener is not only popular everywhere, but after while he gets to know something.

He who gainsa victory over other men is strong; but he who gains a victory over himselfis all powerful.

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.