Diseases are Tax on the pleasure.

Power is the faculty or capacity to act, the strength andpotency to accomplish something. It is the vital energy to make choices anddecisions. It also includes the capacity to overcome deeply embedded habitsand to cultivate higher, more effective ones.

Wisdomis what you get for a lifetime of listening when you'd have preferred totalk.

All marriedcouples should learn the art of battle as they should learn the art of makinglove. Good battle is objective and honest never vicious or cruel. Good battleis healthy and constructive, and brings to a marriage the principle of equalpartnership.

A miserand a liar bargain quickly.

Itisn't that they can't see the solution. It's that they can't see the problem.

If Ishould ever be captured, I want no negotiation—andif I should request a negotiation from captivity they should consider that asign of duress.

A good listener is not someone with nothing to say. A good listener is a good talkerwith a sore throat.

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

It is long and hard and painful to create life; it is short and easy to steal the life others have made.

Thefibers of all things have their tension and are strained like the strings ofan instrument.

Concentration of wealth will never be a problem as long as we have those three great institutions for redistributing it: Taxes, wives, offspring.