If absolute power corrupts absolutely, does absolutepowerlessness make you pure?

To be simple is the best thing in the world; to be modest is the next best thing. I am not so sure about being quiet.

Themost important thing in communication is to hear what isn't being said.

Night is the blotting paper of many sorrows.

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.

You gotto be very careful if you don't know where you're going, because you mightnot get there.

The louder the talked of his honour, the faster we counted our spoons.

I have learned through bitter experience the one supremelesson to conserve my anger, and as heat conserved is transmitted into energy,even so our anger controlled can be transmitted into a power that can movethe world.

Thedays are too short even for love; how can there be enough time for quarreling?

Blessed are they who have nothing to say and who cannot be persuaded to say it.

Don'tclose the barn door after the horse runs away.

Thereare two dilemmas that rattle the human skull: How do you hang on to someone whowon't stay? And how do you get rid of someone who won't go?