Luck iswhat happens when preparation meets opportunity.

A good listener is not only popular everywhere, but after while he gets to know something.

Undernormal conditions, most people tend to see what they want to see, hear what theywant to hear, and do what they want to do; in conflicts, their positionsbecome even more rigid and fixed.

Status symbols are medals you buy yourself

Power doesn't corrupt people, people corrupt power.

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.

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.

Wecould never learn to be brave and patient if there were only joy in the world.

An adventure is an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is an adventure wrongly considered.

There'sno point in arguing with partisan supporters. Their views are their identity.Nothing you can tell the most phlegmatic follower.

Onecomes to believe whatever one repeats to oneself sufficiently often, whetherthe statement be true or false. It comes to be dominating thought in one'smind.

Thepeople to fear are not those who disagree with you, but those who disagreewith you and are too cowardly to let you know.