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.

Neversay more than is necessary.

One whodoes not look ahead remains behind.

Aclosed mind is like a closed book; just a block of wood.

It isgreed to do all the talking but not to want to listen at all.

Opportunists take now for an answer.

Younever really understand a person until you consider things from his point ofview.

The ruler proclaims the good news himself; he sends the servants out to announce the bad news.

Soremarkably perverse is the nature of man that he despises those that court himand admires whoever will not bend before him.

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.

We cannot always control our thoughts, but we can control our words, and repetitionimpresses the subconscious, and we are then master of the situation.

Treatpeople as if they were, what they ought to be andyou help them become what they are capable of being.