It is easier to discover deficiencies in indivuduals, states and providence than to see their real import and value.

Cooperativeconflict builds people up, strengthens their relationships, and gets thingsdone.

When one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world.

The grand essentials of happiness are: something to do something to love, and something to hope for.

Ultimately, the only power to which man should aspire isthat which he exercises over himself.

Thedays are too short even for love; how can there be enough time for quarreling?

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

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.

Power never takes a back step only in the face of morepower.

It's better to let someone think you are an Idiot than to open your mouth and prove it.

Truth is strengthened by observation and delay; falsehood by haste and uncertainity.

Learning must be had, but in the second place, as subsequent only to greater qualities.