Men are mortal, but ideas are immortal.

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.

If all those who speak would weigh their words, how light air would be!

Another form of wastefulness is expenditure of words beyond the income of ideas.

Never[enter] into dispute or argument with another. I never yet saw an instance ofone of two disputants convincing the other by argument. I have seen many ontheir getting warm, becoming rude and shooting one another.

Speech is of time; silence is of eternity.

A newspaper is not just for reporting the news as it is, but to make people angry enough to do something about it

A happy family is but an earlier heaven.

As if you could kill time without injuring eternity.

Theproblem with communication is the illusion that is has occurred.

Thepast is malleable and flexible, changing as our recollection interprets andre-explains what has happened.

Theconventional view serves to protect us from the painful job of thinking.