It's whenyou're safe at home that you wish you were having an adventure. When you'rehaving an adventure you wish you were safe at home.

Renown and repose do not go together.

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.

Trust no one unless you have eaten much salt with him.

The mostintense conflicts, if overcome, leave behind a sense of security and calmthat is not easily disturbed. It is just these intense conflicts and theirconflagration which are needed to produce valuable and lasting results.

The tormentof human frustration, whatever its immediate cause, is the knowledge that theself is in prison, its vital force and ‘mangled mind’ leaking away in lonely,wasteful self-conflict.

When youcannot make up your mind which of two evenly balanced courses of action youshould take choose the bolder.

Icannot divine how it happens that the man who knows the least is the mostargumentative.

The average man’s life consists of: Twenty years of having his mother ask him where he is going, Forty years of having his wife ask the same question; and at the end, the mourners wondering too.

The planers do not make or mar our destiny. we are the makers of our destiny.

A clever person turns great troubles into little ones andlittle ones into none at all.

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