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.

Don'tcut off your nose to spite your face.

The easiest,the most tempting, and the least creative response to conflict within anorganization is to pretend it does not exist.

Thepast is malleable and flexible, changing as our recollection interprets andre-explains what has happened.

The merit belongs to begineer; should his successor do even more better.

Be yourself and speak your mind today, though it contradicts all you have said before.

Speechis human, silence is divine, yet also brutish and dead; therefore we mustlearn both arts.

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

The oldbelieve everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young knoweverything.

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.

Opportunists take now for an answer.

The fibers of all things have their tension and are strainedlike the strings of an instrument.