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.

Resolvingconflict is rarely about who is right. It is about acknowledgment andappreciation of differences.

A status symbol is an instrument you clash when you want someone to know you are there.

Becausewe focused on the snake, we missed the scorpion.

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

If you follow me, I may lead you straight to hell, but ifyou trust me, I will lead you back out again.

We ownalmost all our knowledge not to those who have agreed but to those who havediffered.

If you arepatient in a moment of anger, you will escape a hundred days of sorrow.

Speech is of time; silence is of eternity.

Whenpeople say women can’t be trusted because they cycle every month, myresponse is that men cycle every day, so they should only be allowed tonegotiate peace treaties in the evening.

A man without a smiling face must not open a shop.

Nogarden is without its weeds.