All thingsat first appear difficult.

Due to circumstances beyond your control, you are master of your fateand captain of your soul.

Nomatter how thin you make a pancake, it always has two sides.

Mostpeople I ask little from. I try to give them much, and expect nothing inreturn and I do very well in the bargain.

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.

It's notthe size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.

Whenconflict becomes a win-lose contest in our minds, we immediately try to win.

The civilisation of one epoch becomes the manure of the next.

Pessimism, when you get used to it, is just as agreeable as optimism.

We arethe prisoners of ideas.

The Truly free man is one who know how to decline an invitation without giving an excuse.

The difficultpart in an argument is not to defend one's opinion, but rather to know it.