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.

Knowingthat everything's futile but still fighting, still raging against the dying ofthe light that's what motivates me all the time ... If you hold that sense offutility in your head for too long, it can begin to eat into you. You canstill be aware of it

Man's life would be wretched and confined if it were to missthe candid intimacy developed by mutual trust and esteem.

Themore adaptability exists for a given kind of decision, the less risky it isto make plans for the future, and therefore the more likely it is that morepeople will make more plans in such areas.

Nothing would be done at all if a man waited till he could do it so well that no one could find fault with it

The hearthas arguments with which the logic of mind is not acquainted.

The sun, though it passes through dirty places, yet remains as pure as before.

Speech is of time; silence is of eternity.

Far better to think historically, to remember the lessonsof the past. Thus, far better to conceive of power as consisting in part ofthe knowledge of when not to use all the power you have. Far better to be onewho knows that if you reserve the power not to

Fate chooses our relatives, We choose our friends.

Talk back to your internal critic. Train yourself to recognize and write downcritical thoughts as they go through your mind. Learn why these thoughts areuntrue and practice talking and writing back to them.

The desire of appearing clever often prevents our becoming so.