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.

Diseases are Tax on the pleasure.

Conflictlies at the core of innovation.

Misfortuneis not that which can be avoided, but that which cannot.

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.

Speechis human, silence is divine, yet also brutish and dead; therefore we mustlearn both arts.

There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.

Somewherethere is a map of how it can be done.

He that is unkind to his own will not be kind to others.

You andyour spouse should consider the arguments you have, not as calamities in thehistory of your child’sdevelopment, but as opportunities for learning. Take the opportunity to teachyour children the art ofand value in negotiation, and to demonstrate you

The young man knows the rules, but the old man knows the exceptions.

If you would know what nobody knows, read what everybody reads just after one year afterwards.