Wisdom is what you get for a lifetime of listening when you'd have preferred totalk.

The cliche that education never ends virtually ensures that it does'nt begin.

Successdepends upon previous preparation, and without such preparation there is sureto be failure.

One must be fond of people and trust them if one is not tomake a mess of life.

When youhave to make a choice and you don't make it, that itself is a choice.

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.

Power is no blessing in itself, except when it is used toprotect the innocent.

Where love rules, there is no will to power; and wherepower predominates, there love is lacking. The one is the shadow of theother.

Two prisonerswhose cells adjoin communicate with each other by knocking on the wall. Thewall is the thing which separates them but is also their means ofcommunication. It is the same with us and God. Every separation is a link.

It iswith our brothers and sisters that we learn to love, share, negotiate, startand end fights, hurt others, and save face. The basis of healthy (orunhealthy) connections in adulthood is cast during childhood.

If you are patient in one moment of anger, you will escapea hundred days of sorrow.

There is a sweet joy that comes to us after sorrow.