Humor is the affectionate communication of insight.

True,Heaven prohibits certain pleasures; but one can generally negotiate acompromise.

Communicationis a skill that you can learn. It's like riding a bicycle or typing. Ifyou're willing to work at it, you can rapidly improve the quality of everypart of your life.

The spokenword belongs half to him who speaks, and half to him who listens.

A life makingmistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doingnothing at all.

The difficultpart in an argument is not to defend one's opinion, but rather to know it.

My Strength is made perfect in weakness

Difficultiesare meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong byconflict.

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

One of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and alwaysa clever thing to say.

Youdon't run twenty-six miles at five minutes a mile on good looks and a secretrecipe.

Far better to think historically, to remember the lessonsof the past. Thus, far better to conceive of power as consisting in part ofthe knowledge of when not to use all the power you have. Far better to be onewho knows that if you reserve the power not to