Where love rules, there is no will to power; and wherepower predominates, there love is lacking. The one is the shadow of theother.

Our patience will achieve more than our force.

Optimists and pessimists have one fault in common: they are afraid of the truth.

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

No onecan persuade another to change. Each of us guards a gate of change that canonly be opened from the inside. We cannot open the gate of another, either byargument or emotional appeal.

When angry, count to ten before you speak; if very angry ahundred.

Show me a man who cannot bother to do little things andI'll show you a man who cannot be trusted to do big things.

Manners are the hypocrisy of a nation.

Power does not corrupt men; fools, however, if they getinto a position of power, corrupt power.

Only few men think, but all have opinions.

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.

The mostimportant things are the hardest to say, because words diminish them.