Comedy is an escape, not from the truth but from despair; a narrow escape into faith.

Fate chooses our relatives, We choose our friends.

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.

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.

Bargainlike a gypsy, but pay like a gentleman.

You gotto be very careful if you don't know where you're going, because you mightnot get there.

Let usnever negotiate out of fear. But let us never fear to negotiate.

In anyfree society, the conflict between social conformity and individual libertyis permanent, unresolvable, and necessary.

Take yourlife into your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing, no one toblame.

Distancedoesn't matter. It is only the first step that is difficult.

Astupid act entails doing the work twice over.

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.