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.

Most ofour so-called reasoning consists in finding arguments for going on believingas we already do.

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.

Unresolved:A dose of adversity is often as needful as a dose of medicine.

In loving, you lean on some one to hold him up.

Power is not only what you have but what the enemy thinksyou have.

Humor is the affectionate communication of insight.

Experience is a hard teacher because SHE gives the test first, the lesson afterwards.

Don'tthrow out the baby with the bath water.

A round egg can be made square according to how you cut it; words would be harsh according to how you speak them.

We think too small. Like the frog at the bottom of the well. He thinks the sky is only as big as the top of the well. If he surfaced, he would have an entirely different view.

Thedays are too short even for love; how can there be enough time for quarreling?