The greatest trust between man and man is the trust ofgiving counsel.

Wisdom is what you get for a lifetime of listening when you'd have preferred totalk.

Nevermistake silence for agreement.

Ittakes nine months to have a baby, no matter how many people you put on thejob.

A danger forseen is half avoided.

We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it

A room without books is a body without soul

A happy home is one in which each spouse grants the possiblility that the other may be right, though neither believes it.

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.

Conflictis inevitable, but combat is optional.

Bestill when you have nothing to say; when genuine passion moves you, say whatyou've got to say, and say it hot.

There is something monstrous in commands couched in invented and unfamiliar language, an alien master is the worst of all. The language of the law must not be foreign to the ears of those who are to obey it.