Almost all of our relationships begin and most of them continue as forms of mutual exploitation, a mental or physical barter, to be terminated when one or both parties run out of goods.

Love is the noblest frailty of the of the mind

Be still when you have nothing to say; when genuine passion moves you, say whatyou've got to say, and say it hot.

Thenumber one goal in resolving a conflict is to make sure both sides maintaintheir self-esteem.

The liberty of the individual must be thus far limited: He must not make himself a nuisance to other people.

Girls .. . were allowed to play in the house . . . and boys were sent outdoors. . .Boys ran around in the yard with toy guns going kksshh-kksshh,fighting wars for made-up reasons and arguing about whowas dead, while girls stayed inside and played with dol

The spokenword belongs half to him who speaks, and half to him who listens.

You can't change people, but you can channel them your way.

He that can't endure the bad, will not live to see thegood.

Could agreater miracle take place than for us to look through each other’seyes for an instant?

Thoroughnesscharacterizes all successful men. Genius is the art of taking infinite pains.All great achievement has been characterized by extreme care, infinitepainstaking, even to the minutest detail.

A man's ruin lies in his tongue.