The Pursuit of perfection is the persuit of sweetness and light.

All is riddle, and the key to a riddle is another riddle.

Nothingso completely baffles one who is full of trick and duplicity himself, thanstraightforward and simple integrity in another.

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.

Nevermiss a good chance to shut up.

The exercise of power is determined by thousands ofinteractions between the world of the powerful and that of the powerless, allthe more so because these worlds are never divided by a sharp line: everyonehas a small part of himself in both.

One cannot be precise and still be pure.

Another form of wastefulness is expenditure of words beyond the income of ideas.

Much learning does not teach understanding.

Only the educated are free.

The most important things are the hardest to say, because words diminish them.

Tofight and conquer in all your battles is not supreme excellence; supremeexcellence consists in breaking the enemy's resistance without fighting.