A man'sconversation is the mirror of his thoughts.

All our rightousnesses are like filthy rags

Old men are dangerous; it does not matter to them what is going to happen to the world.

Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried onhim personally.

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.

Negotiatingin the classic diplomatic sense assumes parties are more anxious to agreethan to disagree.

Nothing has happend to you unless you make much of it.

Enthusiasm sees only the down payment.

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

Poetry is the impish attempt to paint the colour of the wind.

If you are distressed by anything external, the pain isnot due to the thing itself but to your own estimate of it; and this you havethe power to revoke at any moment.

It is a strange desire to seek power and to lose liberty,or to seek power over others and to lose power over a man's self.