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

The fibers of all things have their tension and are strainedlike the strings of an instrument.

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.

Buyingis cheaper than asking.

Learning, the destroyer of arrogance, begets arrogance in fools, even as light that illumines the eye, makes owls blind.

Power tires only those who do not have it.

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

The wise man learns more from his enemies than the fool does from his friends.

A school should be the most beautiful place in every town- so beautiful tht the punishment for undutiful children should be that they be debarred from going to school the following day.

Dig a well before you are thirsty.

Communicationis not only the essence of being human, but also a vital property of life.

You can't go very far if you don't begin very near.