To have a respect for ourselves guides our morals; to have a deference for others governs our manners.

Amarriage without conflicts is almost as inconceivable as a nation without crises.

No onecan persuade another to change. Each of us guards a gate of change that canonly be opened from the inside. We cannot open the gate of another, either byargument or emotional appeal.

The most important things are the hardest to say, because words diminish them.

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.

Themost important of life's battles is the one we fight daily in the silentchambers of the soul.

Wecannot always control our thoughts, but we can control our words, andrepetition impresses the subconscious, and we are then master of thesituation.

Expreince never helps us avoid doing something foolish; it merely prevents us from enjoying it.

I hope our wisdom will grow with our power, and teach us,that the less we use our power the greater it will be.

Conduct is wise or foolish only in reference to its results.

The more we see, the more we shall be able to imagine, and the more we imagine, the more we must think we see.

It isimpossible to defeat an ignorant man in argument.