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

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.

It isdifficult to negotiate where neither will trust.

Ability is poor men's wealth

Man's life would be wretched and confined if it were to missthe candid intimacy developed by mutual trust and esteem.

Nature's instructions are always slow, those of men are generally premature.

Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want totest a man's character, give him power.

Youdon't have to worry about being bit if the dog doesn't have any teeth.Success has made failures of many men.

Men of genius are admired, men of wealth are envied, menof power are feared; but only men of character are trusted.

The amount of effort put into a campaign by a worker expands in proportion to the personal benefits that he will derive from his party's victory.

In thefield of observation, chance favors only theprepared minds.

I love power. But it is as an artist that I love it. Ilove it as a musician loves his violin, to draw out its sounds and chords andharmonies.