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.

You can be erudite with knowledge of others; you can be wise only with your wisdom.

There is no knowledge that is not power.

Almost all of our relationships begin and most of them continue as forms of mutual exploitation, a mental or physical barter, to be terminated when one or both parties run out of goods.

A child is not a vase to be filled, but a fire to be lit.

Whenelephants fight, it is the grass who suffers.

Never answer a letter while you are angry.

Power takes as ingratitude the writhing of its victims.

It is no profit to have learned well, if you neglect to do well.

It is a good reader that makes a good book.

History is the witness of the times, the light of truth.

Dig a well before you are thirsty.