There is something monstrous in commands couched in invented and unfamiliar language, an alien master is the worst of all. The language of the law must not be foreign to the ears of those who are to obey it.

One ofthe best ways to persuade others is with your ears by listening to them.

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

Who digs a pit for others will fall in themselves.

Get someone else to blow your horn and the sound will carry twice as far.

Themost important thing in communication is to hear what isn't being said.

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

Theshallower the brook, the more it babbles.

Thedifficult part in an argument is not to defend one's opinion, but rather toknow it.

It is easier to be brave from a safe distance.

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.

Compromiseis never anything but an ignoble truce between the duty of a man and theterror of a coward.