Conflictis inevitable, but combat is optional.

A smallbenefit obtained is better than a great one in expectation.

No one lies as much as the indignant do.

In themiddle of every difficulty lies opportunity.

Learning without thought is labour lost,thought without learning is perilous.

The great advantage of a hotel is that it's a refuge from home life.

Allmarried couples should learn the art of battle as they should learn the art ofmaking love. Good battle is objective and honest never vicious or cruel. Goodbattle is healthy and constructive, and brings to a marriage the principle ofequal partnership.

The cliche that education never ends virtually ensures that it does'nt begin.

A manneed never revenge himself; the body of his enemy will be brought to his owndoor.

Beautiful young people are accidents of nature, Beautiful old people are works of art.

Miracles enables us to judge of doctrine and doctrine enable us to judge of miracles.

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.