If you arepatient in a moment of anger, you will escape a hundred days of sorrow.

Politeness is to human nature what warmth is to wax.

Livingwith integrity means: not settling for less than what you know you deserve inyour relationships. Asking for what you want and need from others. Speakingyour truth, even though it might create conflict or tension. Behaving in waysthat are in harmony

No one wouldtalk much in society; if he knew how often he misunderstands others.

It isnot necessary to understand things in order to argue about them.

A book is a mirror; if an ass peers into it, you can't expect an apostle to peer out.

Soremarkably perverse is the nature of man that he despises those that court himand admires whoever will not bend before him.

If wemanage conflict constructively, we harness its energy for creativity and development.

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.

Arbitrary power is like most other things which are veryhard, very liable to be broken.

In thefield of observation, chance favors only theprepared minds.

Concentration of wealth will never be a problem as long as we have those three great institutions for redistributing it: Taxes, wives, offspring.