Do we wish men to be virtuous? Then let us begin by making them love their country.

Talkingjaw-jaw is always better than war-war.

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.

Sometimesyou have to be silent to be heard.

Only freemen can negotiate. Prisoners cannot enter into contracts. Your freedom andmine cannot be separated.

Suffering is one very long moment. We cannot divide it by seasons. WE can only record its moods and chronicle their return.

Twobirds disputed about a kernel, when a third swooped down and carried it off.

The function of genius is to furnish cretins with ideas twenty year later.

Ifyou are leaning over to starboard to balance the boat against the other guy'spropensity to lean too far to port, both of you are about to get wet.

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

I don't like that man. I'm going to have to get to knowhim better.

If you would know what nobody knows, read what everybody reads just after one year afterwards.