I'm nota combative person. My long experience has taught me to resolve conflict byraising the issues before I or others burn their boats.

Comedy is an escape, not from the truth but from despair; a narrow escape into faith.

It isnot necessary to understand things in order to argue about them.

Compromise,n. Such an adjustment of conflicting interests as gives each adversary thesatisfaction of thinking he has got what he ought not to have, and isdeprived of nothing except what was justly his due.

Liberation is not deliverance.

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

The good rain like a bad preacher, does not know when to leave off.

Take yourlife into your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing, no one toblame.

Peoplespend a lifetime searching for happiness; looking for peace. They chase idledreams, addictions, religions, even other people, hoping to fill theemptiness that plagues them. The irony is the only place they ever needed tosearch was within.

Wisdom requires that we pour a little oil of delicate courtesy on the wheels of friendship.

Pain is the outcome of sin.

In art, as in love, instinct is enogh.