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.

Concentration of wealth will never be a problem as long as we have those three great institutions for redistributing it: Taxes, wives, offspring.

Power consists in one's capacity to link his will with thepurpose of others, to lead by reason and a gift of cooperation.

The last function of reason is to recognize that there is an infinity of things which surpass it.

Ashes fly back into the face of him who throws them.

Without trust, words become the hollow sound of a woodengong. With trust, words become life itself.

History repeats itself. that's one of the things wrong with history

We often pardon those who bore us, we cannot pardon those whom we bore.

The hand of liberty is stronger than arms of power.

If pain could have cured us, we should have long ago been saved.

Two prisonerswhose cells adjoin communicate with each other by knocking on the wall. Thewall is the thing which separates them but is also their means ofcommunication. It is the same with us and God. Every separation is a link.

Peace cannot be kept by force. It can only be won, through understanding. Our longingfor understandingis Eternal.