Ninety-ninepercent of all problems in communications start with misunderstandings whichdevelop as a result of differing viewpoints and conditioning.

Our distrust is very expensive.

Given afair wind, we will negotiate our way into the Common Market, head held high,not crawling in. Negotiations? Yes. Unconditional acceptance of whateverterms are offered us? No.

Listening,not imitation, may be the sincerest form of flattery.

There are three ways of bearing ills of life: by indifference, by philosophy, and by religion.

The exercise of power is determined by thousands ofinteractions between the world of the powerful and that of the powerless, allthe more so because these worlds are never divided by a sharp line: everyonehas a small part of himself in both.

A language is like living skin itself.

To be spiritual is not to reject reason but to go beyond it.

A fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of sense to know how to tell a lie.

My Strength is made perfect in weakness

Trust resides squarely between faith and doubt.

Sometimeswe have the dream but we are not ourselves ready for the dream. We have togrow to meet it.