The more estimable the offender, the greater the torment.

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

It is said that power corrupts, but actually it's moretrue that power attracts the corruptible. The sane are usually attracted byother things than power.

You could forgive an enemy. It is harder to forgive yourself.

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

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.

As contagion of sickness makes sickness, contagion oftrust can make trust.

Education is the ability to listen to almost everything without losing your temper or self-confidence.

Conflictinvolves incompatible behaviors rather thancompetitive goals.

Wisdomis what you get for a lifetime of listening when you'd have preferred totalk.

Whodigs a pit for others will fall in themselves.

Don'tthrow out the baby with the bath water.