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.

To pushadvantages too far is neither generous nor just.

The liberty of the individual must be thus far limited: He must not make himself a nuisance to other people.

Within-groupconflict is always personal and emotional even if it begins with impersonalissues.

Now-a-days women don't hire domestic help-they marry it.

If wemanage conflict constructively, we harness its energy for creativity and development.

Friendship increases in visiting friends, but in visiting them seldom.

Habit: the shackles of the free

Most ofour so-called reasoning consists in finding arguments for going on believingas we already do.

Whenyou cannot make up your mind which of two evenly balanced courses of actionyou should take choose the bolder.

Man must not check reason by tradition, but must check tradition by reason.

In history, characters and events occur twice, first as tragedy then as farce.