Ideal society is a drama enacted exclusively in the imagination

Peoplespend a lifetime searching for happiness; looking for peace. They chase idledreams, addictions, religions, even other people, hoping to fill theemptiness that plagues them. The irony is the only place they ever needed tosearch was within.

Some people suffer in silence louder than others

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 is much easier to be a hero than a gentleman.

Youdon't drown by falling in the water. You drown by staying there. Anonymous Agood deal is a state of mind.

The exercise of power is determined by thousands ofinteractions between the world of the powerful and that of the powerless, allthe more so because these worlds are never divided by a sharp line: everyonehas a small part of himself in both.

There'sno need to fear the wind if your haystacks are tied down.

Am Inot destroying my enemies when I make friends of them?

When regard for truth has been broken down or evenslightly weakened, all things will remain doubtful.

The easiest,the most tempting, and the least creative response to conflict within anorganization is to pretend it does not exist.

Nothing astonishes men so much as common sense and plain dealing.