Marriagemeans expectations and expectations mean conflict.

You can not do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late.

Concentration of wealth will never be a problem as long as we have those three great institutions for redistributing it: Taxes, wives, offspring.

You could forgive an enemy. It is harder to forgive yourself.

It isn't important to come out on top, what matters is to be the one who comes out alive.

Changemeans movement. Movement means friction. Only in the frictionless vacuum of anonexistent abstract world can movement or change occur without that abrasivefriction of conflict.

Imagination grows by excercise and in more powerful in the mature rather than in the young.

Agrievance is most poignant when almost redressed.

Thecorrect strategy for Americans negotiating with Japanese or other foreignclients is a Japanese strategy:ask questions. When you think you understand, ask more questions. Carefullyfeel for pressure points.If an impasse is reached, don't pressure. Sugges

Sorrow and silence are strong, and patient endurance is god-like.

There are three ways of bearing ills of life: by indifference, by philosophy, and by religion.

It is easier to discover deficiencies in indivuduals, states and providence than to see their real import and value.