Marriagemeans expectations and expectations mean conflict.

Whenyou plant lettuce, if it does not grow well, you don't blame the lettuce. Youlook for reasons it is not doing well. It may need fertilizer, or more water,or less sun. You never blame the lettuce. Yet if we have problems with ourfriends or our family,

Democracy is the art of disciplining onself, so that one need not be disciplined by others.

The exercise of power is determined by thousands ofinteractions between the world of the powerful and that of the powerless, allthe more so because these worlds are never divided by a sharp line: everyonehas a small part of himself in both.

If your mouth turns into a knife, it will cut off yourlips.

A man of courage is also full of faith.

A hero is no braver than anyone else; he is only brave minutes longer

The ruler proclaims the good news himself; he sends the servants out to announce the bad news.

Ignorance is a form of environmental pollution.

It isgreed to do all the talking but not to want to listen at all.

All bravery stands upon comparisons.

He that is unkind to his own will not be kind to others.