Old wood best of burn, old friend to trust and old authors to read.

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.

It is throughcooperation, rather than conflict, that your greatest successes will bederived.

Twobirds disputed about a kernel, when a third swooped down and carried it off.

you can not strengthen the weak by weakening the strong.

One whodoes not look ahead remains behind.

A shipin harbor is safe, but that is not what ships are built for.

It is better to suffer wrong than to do it, and happier tobe sometimes cheated than not to trust.

Laughteris the shortest distance between two people.

No onecan persuade another to change. Each of us guards a gate of change that canonly be opened from the inside. We cannot open the gate of another, either byargument or emotional appeal.

Laughter is the sun that drives winter from the human face.

Half of the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important