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.

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

Fromlittle acorns mighty oaks do grow.

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

Knowingthat everything's futile but still fighting, still raging against the dying ofthe light that's what motivates me all the time ... If you hold that sense offutility in your head for too long, it can begin to eat into you. You canstill be aware of it

Compromise.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.

Hear me,my chiefs! I am tired. My heart is sick and sad. From where the sun nowstands, I will fight no more forever.

Ourlives are not dependent on whether or not we have conflict. It is what we dowith conflict that makes the difference.

Conflictis the gadfly of thought. It stirs us to observation and memory. Itinstigates to invention. It shocks us out of sheeplikepassivity, and sets us at noting and contriving.

The greatest intelligence is precisely the one that suffers most from its own limitations.

Enthusiasm is faith set on fire.

Familiarize yourself with the chains of bondage and you prepare your own limbs to wear them.