The average man’s life consists of: Twenty years of having his mother ask him where he is going, Forty years of having his wife ask the same question; and at the end, the mourners wondering too.

A book is a mirror; if an ass peers into it, you can't expect an apostle to peer out.

A nation reveals itself not only by the men it honours, the men it remembers.

A half-truth won for ourselves is worth more than a whole truth learned from others.

Tact is the ability to make a person see the lightning without letting him feel the bolt.

A caricature is always ture only for an instant.

Peaceis not the absence of conflict but the presence of creative alternatives forresponding to conflict alternatives to passive or aggressive responses,alternatives to violence.

Agrievance is most poignant when almost redressed.

Malice drinketh its own poison.

Freedom suppressed and again regained bites with keener fangs that freedom never endangered.

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.

Nothing lays itself open to the change of exaggeration more than the language of naked truth.