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.

Nothing so wonderfully concentrates the mind as theprospect of a hanging.

To like and dislike the same thing, that is, indeed, friendship.

One must be fond of people and trust them if one is not tomake a mess of life.

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.

A round egg can be made square according to how you cut it; words would be harsh according to how you speak them.

Well-managed,cooperative conflict contributes to the productivity and innovativeness oforganizations and the competence and well-being of people.

Boredom is a vital problem for the moralist, since atleast half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it.

Power is a little like alcohol: the faster it is consumed, the more quickly it affects the brain.

My fathersaid: you must never try to make all the money that's in a deal. Let theother fellow make some money too, because if you have a reputation for alwaysmaking all the money, you won't have many deals.

We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it

It is said that power corrupts, but actually it's moretrue that power attracts the corruptible. The sane are usually attracted byother things than power.