Reasonand emotion are not antagonists. What seems like a struggle between twoopposing ideas or values, one of which, automatic and unconscious, manifestsitself in the form of a feeling.

It'snot the plan that is important, it's the planning.

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.

Every village has to become a self-sufficient republic.

Nobody'sa natural. You work hard to get good and then work to get better. It's hardto stay on top.

Amarriage without conflicts is almost as inconceivable as a nation without crises.

Conflictcan be seen as a gift of energy, in which neither sideloses and a new dance is created.

Friendship increases in visiting friends, but in visiting them seldom.

Embracingconflict can become a joy when we know that irritation and frustration canlead to growth and fascination.

Silence is argument carried out by other means.

Neverforget the power of silence, that massively disconcerting pause which goes onand on and may at last induce an opponent to babble and backtrack nervously.

It is a lesson which all history teaches wise men, to puttrust in ideas, and not in circumstances.