Becausewe focused on the snake, we missed the scorpion.

There is all the difference in the world between having something to say and havingto say something.

Nothing is a permanent except change.

Show me a man who cannot bother to do little things andI'll show you a man who cannot be trusted to do big things.

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.

Failureto prepare is preparing to fail.

Comedy is an escape, not from the truth but from despair; a narrow escape into faith.

We make our friends, we make our enemies, but God makes our next-door neighbours.

Eyes are more accurate witness than ears

In anyfree society, the conflict between social conformity and individual libertyis permanent, unresolvable, and necessary.

No onecan persuade another to change. Each of us guards a gate of change that canonly be opened from the inside. We cannot open the gate of another, either byargument or emotional appeal.

To sit alone in the lamp light with a book spread out before you-such is a pleasure beyond compare.