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.

Theeasiest, the most tempting, and the least creative response to conflictwithin an organization is to pretend it does notexist.

In oneof our concert grand pianos, 243 taut strings exert a pull of 40,000 poundson an iron frame. It is proof that out of great tension may come greatharmony.

Fromlittle acorns mighty oaks do grow.

Two prisonerswhose cells adjoin communicate with each other by knocking on the wall. Thewall is the thing which separates them but is also their means ofcommunication. It is the same with us and God. Every separation is a link.

If youcan make a man laugh, you can make him think and make him like and believeyou.

Aquarrel is like buttermilk: once it's out of the churn, the more you shake it,the more sour it grows.

The greatest humiliation in life is to work hard on something from which you expect great appreciation, and then fail to get.

The good things of life are not to be had singly, but come to us with a mixture; like a school boy's holiday, with a task affixed to the tail of it.

Mandoes not live by words alone, despite the fact that sometimes he has to eatthem.

The difficultpart in an argument is not to defend one's opinion, but rather to know it.

I hold it to be a proof of great prudence for men toabstain from threats and insulting words toward an enemy, for neither ...diminishes the strength of the enemy; but the one makes him more cautious,and the other increases his hatred of you and makes him