Intelligence is not to make no mistakes, but quickly to see how to make them good.

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

Silenceis argument carried out by other means.

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.

The art of writing is the art of restraint.

There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.

Only hethat has traveled the road knows where the holes are deep.

The strongest is never strong enough to be always, the master, unless he transforms strength into right, and obedience into duty.

He who asks questions cannot avoid the answers.

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

Duty largely consists of pretending that the trivial is critical

Peaceis not the absence of conflict but the presence of creative alternatives forresponding to conflict alternatives to passive or aggressive responses,alternatives to violence.