You can have power over people as long as you don't takeeverything away from them. But when you've robbed a man of everything, he'sno longer in your power.

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.

Learning without thought is labour lost,thought without learning is perilous.

Democracy will break under the strain of apronstrings. It can exist only on trust.

Bekind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.

Only hethat has traveled the road knows where the holes are deep.

Speak when you are angry and you will make the best speech you will ever regret.

The leaders who work most effectively, it seems to me,never say ‘I.’ And that's not because they have trainedthemselves not to say ‘I.’ They don't think ‘I.’ Theythink ‘we’; they think ‘team.’ They understand theirjob to be to make the team function. They

Trust no one unless you have eaten much salt with him.

Conflictisn't negative, it just is.

Ifthere is any great secret of success in life, it lies in the ability to putyourself in the other person’s place and to see things from his point of view as well as your own.

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.