The fibers of all things have their tension and are strainedlike the strings of an instrument.

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.

There are questions of real power and then there arequestions of phony authority. You have to break through the phony authorityto begin to fight the real questions of power.

Themost intense conflicts, if overcome, leave behind a sense of security andcalm that is not easily disturbed. It is just these intense conflicts andtheir conflagration which are needed to produce valuable and lasting results.

Soremarkably perverse is the nature of man that he despises those that court himand admires whoever will not bend before him.

Power takes as ingratitude the writhing of its victims.

Aquarrel is like buttermilk: once it's out of the churn, the more you shake it,the more sour it grows.

Patriots always talk of dying for their country, and never of killing for their country

Silence is argument carried out by other means.

Compromise.Such an adjustment of conflicting interests as gives each adversary thesatisfaction of thinking he has got what he ought not to have, and isdeprived of nothing except what was justly his due.

Manners are the hypocrisy of a nation.

If Ishould ever be captured, I want no negotiation—and if I should request anegotiation from captivity they should consider that a sign of duress.