Amarriage without conflicts is almost as inconceivable as a nation without crises.

Listeningwell is as powerful a means of communication and influence as to talk well.

Almost all four faults are more pardonable than the methods we think up to hide them

The function of genius is to furnish cretins with ideas twenty year later.

A good listener is not only popular everywhere, but after while he gets to know something.

An artist is only a very small part of the universe and should receive no more attention than any other thing on earth which provides us with beauty, happiness and plenty

As if you could kill time without injuring eternity.

Nature gave women too much power; the law gives them too little.

Remember not only to say the right thing in the right place, but far more difficultstill, to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment.

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.

Twoprisoners whose cells adjoin communicate with each other by knocking on thewall. The wall is the thing which separates them but is also their means ofcommunication. It is the same with us and God. Every separation is a link.

Anempty sack cannot stand up.