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.

The real purpose of books is to trap the mind into doing its own thinking

To know the pains of power, we must go to those who have it;to know its pleasures, we must go to those who are seeking it.

The highest pleasure to be got out of freedom, and having nothing to do, is labour

So longas a man is angry he cannot be in the right.

I am atpeace with God. My conflict is with man.

Theshallower the brook, the more it babbles.

If wecannot end our differences at least we can make the world safe for diversity.

Standingin the middle of the road is very dangerous; you get knocked down by thetraffic from both sides.

Themost dramatic conflicts are perhaps, those that take place not between menbut between a man and himselfwhere the arena of conflict is a solitary mind.

Failingto plan is planning to fail.

When aman says that he approves something in principle, it means he hasn't theslightest intention of putting it in practice.