Nevermistake silence for agreement.

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.

Thepeak efficiency of knowledge and strategy is to make conflict unnecessary.

Politeness is to human nature what warmth is to wax.

Earnest people are often people who habitually look on the serious side of things that have no serious side

All mankind is divided into three classes: those who are immovable; those who are movable; and those who move.

Prejudice is a disease characterised by hardening of categories.

Education makes people easy to lead, but difficult to drive; Easy to govern, but impossible to enslave

The pessimistsees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees opportunity in everydifficulty.

The oldbelieve everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young knoweverything.

Believing that soom good can be derived from every event is a better preposition than that everything happens for the best, which is assuredly does not.

The onesure way to conciliate a tiger is to allow oneself to be devoured.