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.

It is said that power corrupts, but actually it's moretrue that power attracts the corruptible. The sane are usually attracted byother things than power.

Most ofour so-called reasoning consists in finding arguments for going on believingas we already do.

No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.

Kind wordscan be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.

The ability to laugh together is the essence of love.

Speechis human, silence is divine, yet also brutish and dead; therefore we mustlearn both arts.

Whoeverhas the mind to fight has broken his connection with the universe. If you tryto dominate people you are already defeated. We study how to resolveconflict, not how to start it.

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

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

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.

The hardeststep is over the threshold.