If youcould kick the person in the pants responsible for most of your trouble, youwouldn't sit for a month.

A matter that becomes clear ceases to concern us.

We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it

Nothing destroys authority more than the unequal and untimelyinterchange of power stretched too far and relaxed too much.

To do what others cannot do is talent. To do what talent cannot do is genius.

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.

What is well done is done soon enough.

Enthusiasm is faith set on fire.

The great essentials of happiness are: something to do,something to love and something to hope for.

If speakingis silver, then listening is gold.

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.

Thetime to repair the roof is when the sun is shining.