Failingto plan is planning to fail.

We'reeyeball to eyeball and the other fellow just blinked.

Knowingthat everything's futile but still fighting, still raging against the dying ofthe light that's what motivates me all the time ... If you hold that sense offutility in your head for too long, it can begin to eat into you. You canstill be aware of it

To beprepared is half the victory.

Whenyou lose, don't lose the lesson.

An individual without information can't takeresponsibility. An individual with information can't help but takeresponsibility.

The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.

No pillow is as soft as clear conscience.

Don'tcut off your nose to spite your face.

Snap judgment has a way of becoming unfastened.

In oneof our concert grand pianos, 243 taut strings exert a pull of 40,000 poundson an iron frame. It is proof that out of great tension may come greatharmony.

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.