Nature hasgiven men one tongue and two ears, that we may hear twice as much as wespeak.

All marriedcouples should learn the art of battle as they should learn the art of makinglove. Good battle is objective and honest never vicious or cruel. Good battleis healthy and constructive, and brings to a marriage the principle of equalpartnership.

True,Heaven prohibits certain pleasures; but one can generally negotiate acompromise.

Nine times out of ten, we are disappointed in life because we don't ask enough of it.

Where love rules, there is no will to power; and wherepower predominates, there love is lacking. The one is the shadow of theother.

Thedeeper the waters are, the more still they run.

The good things of life are not to be had singly, but come to us with a mixture; like a school boy's holiday, with a task affixed to the tail of it.

Everyone speaks well of his heart, but no one dares to say it of his dead.

If youare planning on doing business with someone again, don't be too tough in thenegotiations. If you're going to skin a cat, don't keep it as a house cat.

Life imitates art far more that art imitates life.

The hearthas arguments with which the logic of mind is not acquainted.

I love power. But it is as an artist that I love it. Ilove it as a musician loves his violin, to draw out its sounds and chords andharmonies.