To sit alone in the lamp light with a book spread out before you-such is a pleasure beyond compare.

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.

Nations get as good or as bad a government as they deserve.

You can't unscramble an egg.

Conflictis the gadfly of thought. It stirs us to observation and memory. Itinstigates to invention. It shocks us out of sheeplikepassivity, and sets us at noting and contriving.

Change meansmovement. Movement means friction. Only in the frictionless vacuum of anonexistent abstract world can movement or change occur without that abrasivefriction of conflict.

Let usnever negotiate out of fear. But let us never fear to negotiate.

People say law but they mean wealth.

The leaders who work most effectively, it seems to me,never say ‘I.’ And that's not because they have trainedthemselves not to say ‘I.’ They don't think ‘I.’ Theythink ‘we’; they think ‘team.’ They understand theirjob to be to make the team function. They

Finance is the art of passing currency from hand to hand until it finally disappears.

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

Humour is a hole that lets the sawdust out of a stuffed shirt.