A happy home is one in which each spouse grants the possiblility that the other may be right, though neither believes it.

Every village has to become a self-sufficient republic.

Stoppingat third base adds no more to the score than striking out.

Standingin the middle of the road is very dangerous; you get knocked down by thetraffic from both sides.

Write injuries in dust, benefits in marble.

A peace which depends upon fear is nothing but a suppressed war.

Theterm up has no meaning apart from the word down. The term fasthas no meaning apart from the term slow. In addition, such termshave no meaning even when used together, except when confined to a veryparticular situation... most of our language about the

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.

We knowwhat happens to people who stay in the middle of the road. They get run over.

Could agreater miracle take place than for us to look through each other’seyes for an instant?

The greatest virtue of man is perhaps curiosity.

Thedays are too short even for love; how can there be enough time for quarreling?