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 atrick among the dishonest to offer sacrifices that are not needed,or not possible, to avoid making those that are required.

Health and Cheerfulness mutually begets each other.

A happy home is one in which each spouse grants the possiblility that the other may be right, though neither believes it.

Flatteryis the infantry of negotiation.

You may give gifts without caring, but you can't care without giving

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.

Non-cooperationis a measure of discipline and sacrifice, and it demands respect for theopposite views.

The tormentof human frustration, whatever its immediate cause, is the knowledge that theself is in prison, its vital force and ‘mangled mind’ leaking away in lonely,wasteful self-conflict.

The most imaginative people are the most credulous, for to them everything is possible.

Theultimate test of a relationship is to disagree but hold hands.

Grantgraciously what you cannot refuse safely and conciliate those you cannotconquer.