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.

He understands badly who listens badly.

The sun, though it passes through dirty places, yet remains as pure as before.

It's the job that's never started as takes longest to finish.

Beautiful young people are accidents of nature, Beautiful old people are works of art.

It is a strange desire to seek power and to lose liberty,or to seek power over others and to lose power over a man's self.

Kindness is a language which the deaf can hear and a blind can read.

If anenemy is annoying you by playing well, consider adopting his strategy.

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.

Before following a leader, it's wise to see if he's headed in the right direction.

Science has promised us truth. It has never promised us either peace or happiness.

Nothing lays itself open to the change of exaggeration more than the language of naked truth.