Thefire you kindle for your enemy often burns yourself more than him.

A rumor goes in one ear and out many mouths.

The onesure way to conciliate a tiger is to allow oneself to be devoured.

Don'tcut off your nose to spite your face.

Inspiration comes of working every day.

Amarriage without conflicts is almost as inconceivable as a nation without crises.

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.

Civilization is a movement and not a condition, a voyage and not a harbour.

We mustbe part of the general staff at the inception, rather than the ambulancedrivers at the bitter end.

In aconflict, being willing to change allows you to move from a point of view toa viewing point a higher, moreexpansive place, from which you can see both sides.

A happy family is but an earlier heaven.

It is easier to discover deficiencies in indivuduals, states and providence than to see their real import and value.