First-rate men employ first-rate men; second-rate men employ third-rate men.

All marriedcouples should learn the art of battle as they should learn the art of makinglove. Good battle is objective and honest never vicious or cruel. Good battleis healthy and constructive, and brings to a marriage the principle of equalpartnership.

The most imaginative people are the most credulous, for to them everything is possible.

Every man is wanted; and no man is wanted much.

Makesure you leave some fat for the other side.

Self-trust is the first secret of success.

Reason is my philosophy, is only a harmony among irrational impulses.

If your mouth turns into a knife, it will cut off yourlips.

He who truly knows has no occasion to shout

A language is like living skin itself.

Truepeace is not merely the absence of tension: it is the presence of justice.

Nothing so wonderfully concentrates the mind as theprospect of a hanging.