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.

Do not tell me the problem is a difficult one. If it were not difficult, it would not be a problem

Younever really understand a person until you consider things from his point ofview.

The present is never a happy state to any being

We thought, because we had power, we had wisdom.

Politeness is the art of selecting among one's real thoughts.

A clever person turns great troubles into little ones andlittle ones into none at all.

A taste for truth at any cost is a passion which spares nothing:

We often pardon those who bore us, we cannot pardon those whom we bore.

Sorrow and silence are strong, and patient endurance is god-like.

The greatest trust between man and man is the trust ofgiving counsel.

Neverforget the power of silence, that massively disconcerting pause which goes onand on and may at last induce an opponent to babble and backtrack nervously.