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

I liketo listen. I have learned a great deal from listening carefully. Most peoplenever listen.

To ask advice is in nine cases out of ten tout for flattery.

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.

They know enough who know how to learn.

An honest man's word is as good as his bond.

Little things console us because little things afflict us.

Treatpeople as if they were, what they ought to be andyou help them become what they are capable of being.

A happy family is but an earlier heaven.

If you ain't never pick up the sword,you ain't never have to worry about fallin' on it.

Almost all four faults are more pardonable than the methods we think up to hide them

Assumptionof cooperative goals leads to viewing the conflict as a common problem to besolved for mutual benefit.