Onemight as well try to ride two horses moving in different directions, as totry to maintain in equal force two opposing or contradictory sets of desires.

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.

Speechis human, silence is divine, yet also brutish and dead; therefore we mustlearn both arts.

It was impossible to get a conversation going, everybody was talking too much.

Talkingjaw-jaw is always better than war-war.

Extremiststhink communication means agreeing with them.

To sit alone in the lamp light with a book spread out before you-such is a pleasure beyond compare.

Onemust talk little and listen much.

Patience is something you admire in the driver behind you and scorn in the one ahead.

It ishard to change our point of view in a conflict. Most often, it is because weare not nearly as interested in resolving the conflict and possibly creatinga new ‘pearl’ as we are in being right.

He who asks questions cannot avoid the answers.

A teacher as a person is more important than a teacher as a technician. What he is has more effect than anything he does.