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.

Golf is an expensive way of playing marbles.

Nations get as good or as bad a government as they deserve.

Better hazard than always be in fear.

A book, like a landscape, is a state of consciouness varying with readers.

We arejudged by what we finish, not what we start.

Insteadof suppressing conflicts, specific channels could be created to make thisconflict explicit, and specific methods could be set up by which the conflictis resolved.

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

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.

To startblindly with a statement is a sign of arrogance and narrow-mindedness, andwill lead to conflict. To start blindly with a question is a sign ofuncertainty and honesty, and will lead to wisdom.

Deep-seatedpreferences cannot be argued about.

The ruler proclaims the good news himself; he sends the servants out to announce the bad news.