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.

A cup is useful only when it is empty; and a mind that is filled with beliefs, with dogmas, with assertions, with quotations, is really an uncreative mind.

If you ain'tnever pick up the sword, you ain't never have to worry about fallin' on it.

Thepast is malleable and flexible, changing as our recollection interprets andre-explains what has happened.

Nature arms each man with some faculty which enables himto do easily some feat impossible to any other.

We mustbe part of the general staff at the inception, rather than the ambulancedrivers at the bitter end.

Pain is the outcome of sin.

If necessityis the mother of invention, conflict is its father.

Even a fish wouldn't get into trouble if it kept its mouth shut.

The fire you kindle for your enemy often burns yourself more than him.

Our distrust is very expensive.

If youare leaning over to starboard to balance the boat against the other guy'spropensity to lean too far to port, both of you are about to get wet.