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.

Patriots always talk of dying for their country, and never of killing for their country

Laughteris the shortest distance between two people.

If Ishould ever be captured, I want no negotiation—and if I should request anegotiation from captivity they should consider that a sign of duress.

Whenpeople say women can’t be trusted because they cycle every month, myresponse is that men cycle every day, so they should only be allowed tonegotiate peace treaties in the evening.

Theconventional view serves to protect us from the painful job of thinking.

It isnot necessary to understand things in order to argue about them.

The summit of happiness is reached when a person is ready to be what he is.

Theharder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph.

Few things help an individual more than to placeresponsibility upon him, and to let him know that you trust him.

Nothing makes it easier to resist temptation than a proper upbringing, a sound set of values.

Arbitrary power is like most other things which are veryhard, very liable to be broken.