The good things of life are not to be had singly, but come to us with a mixture; like a school boy's holiday, with a task affixed to the tail of it.

Talkingcomes by nature, silence by wisdom.

It is in our idleness, in our dreams, that submerged truth sometimes comes to top.

Outside noisy, inside empty.

A language is like living skin itself.

The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends upon the unreasonable man.

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.

Pleasant words are the food of love.

Books without the knowledge of life are useless.

Negotiatingin the classic diplomatic sense assumes parties are more anxious to agreethan to disagree.

Human beings are not perfectible. They are improvable.

The desire for change is a sign of safety.