Manners are the hypocrisy of a nation.

The function of genius is to furnish cretins with ideas twenty year later.

Nature gave women too much power; the law gives them too little.

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.

Whodigs a pit for others will fall in themselves.

Humoris the affectionate communication of insight.

We think too small. Like the frog at the bottom of the well. He thinks the sky is only as big as the top of the well. If he surfaced, he would have an entirely different view.

You only have power over people so long as you don't takeeverything away from them. But when you've robbed a man of everything he's nolonger in your power he's free again.

Every new adjustment is a crisis in self-esteem.

Suffering is one very long moment. We cannot divide it by seasons. WE can only record its moods and chronicle their return.

Silence, along with modesty, is a great aid to conversation.

Talkingjaw-jaw is always better than war-war.