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.

If you get to thinking you're a person of some influence,try ordering somebody else's dog around.

If you would know what nobody knows, read what everybody reads just after one year afterwards.

Too little liberty brings stagnation, too much brings chaos.

Imagination is useful as long as it remains practical.

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.

I have never been able to conceive how any rational beingcould propose happiness to himself from the exercise of power over others.

Thedeeper the waters are, the more still they run.

Though patience be a tired mare, yet she will plod.

It's better to let someone think you are an Idiot than to open your mouth and prove it.

Two prisonerswhose cells adjoin communicate with each other by knocking on the wall. Thewall is the thing which separates them but is also their means ofcommunication. It is the same with us and God. Every separation is a link.

The property of power is to protect.