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.

Success is often the result of taking a mis-step in the right direction.

Nothing so wonderfully concentrates the mind as theprospect of a hanging.

Saying nothing... sometimes says the most.

The most imaginative people are the most credulous, for to them everything is possible.

No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.

Onlyfree men can negotiate. Prisoners cannot enter into contracts. Your freedomand mine cannot be separated.

Beholdthe turtle. He makes progress only when he sticks his neck out.

Neverforget the power of silence, that massively disconcerting pause which goes onand on and may at last induce an opponent to babble and backtrack nervously.

One cannot be precise and still be pure.

Angels fly, because they take themselves lightly.

Nothing destroys authority more than the unequal and untimelyinterchange of power stretched too far and relaxed too much.