Aclosed mind is like a closed book; just a block of wood.

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.

Kindness it is that bring forth kindness.

Muchtalking is the cause of danger. Silence is the means of avoiding misfortune.The talkative parrot is shut up in a cage. Other birds, without speech, flyfreely about.

A hard job is one which leaves a fellow as tired before week-end as after.

The hardest thing to disguise is you feelings when you put a lot of relatives on the train for home.

To pushadvantages too far is neither generous nor just.

Compromise,n. Such an adjustment of conflicting interests as gives each adversary thesatisfaction of thinking he has got what he ought not to have, and isdeprived of nothing except what was justly his due.

Nine times out of ten, we are disappointed in life because we don't ask enough of it.

Why don'tyou want to do what you know you should do? The reason you don't is thatyou're in conflict with yourself.

Myinterest is in the future because I'm going to be spending the rest of mylife there.

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.