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.

There arealways two forces warring against each other within us.

When your work speaks for itself,don't interrupt.

Folly is perennial and yet the human race has survived

We gain freedom when we have paid full price for our right to live.

Neverforget the power of silence, that massively disconcerting pause which goes onand on and may at last induce an opponent to babble and backtrack nervously.

It was impossible to get a conversation going, everybody was talking too much.

When our hearts are empty, we collect things.

Politicians are the same all over. They promise to build a bridge even where there is no river.

It iswith our brothers and sisters that we learn to love, share, negotiate, startand end fights, hurt others, and save face. The basis of healthy (orunhealthy) connections in adulthood is cast during childhood.

Pleasure is by no means an infallible critical guide, but it is the least fallible.

Any man's death diminishes me, because i am involved in mankind; and, therefore, never tend to know for whom the bell tolls. It tolls for thee.