Happiness is the wondrous commodity, the more your give; the more you have.

Be still when you have nothing to say; when genuine passion moves you, say whatyou've got to say, and say it hot.

A bad word whispered will echo a hundred miles.

Onemight as well try to ride two horses moving in different directions, as totry to maintain in equal force two opposing or contradictory sets of desires.

Change meansmovement. Movement means friction. Only in the frictionless vacuum of anonexistent abstract world can movement or change occur without that abrasivefriction of conflict.

Thedeepest principle of human nature is the craving to be appreciated.

There is no passion in life as intense as the desire to change someone else's draft.

Poetry is the impish attempt to paint the colour of the wind.

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.

A man sits as many risks as he runs.

Civilization has made the peasantry its pack animal.

Never play cat and mouse games if you are a mouse.