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.

Power is the faculty or capacity to act, the strength andpotency to accomplish something. It is the vital energy to make choices anddecisions. It also includes the capacity to overcome deeply embedded habitsand to cultivate higher, more effective ones.

The most important things are the hardest to say, because words diminish them.

Mirrors should be able to think before reflecting the images.

Where love rules, there is no will to power; and wherepower predominates, there love is lacking. The one is the shadow of theother.

You canobserve a lot by just watching.

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.

Remembernot only to say the right thing in the right place, but far more difficultstill, to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment.

There is sweet joy that comes to us that comes to us after sorrow.

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

Suffering is the sole origin of consciousness.

If your mouth turns into a knife, it will cut off yourlips.