To have a respect for ourselves guides our morals; to have a deference for others governs our manners.

Children are like wet cement. Whatever falls on them makes an impression.

You don'trun twenty-six miles at five minutes a mile on good looks and a secretrecipe.

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.

Onlyfree men can negotiate. Prisoners cannot enter into contracts. Your freedomand mine cannot be separated.

He approaches nearest to the gods who knows how to be silent, even though he is in the right.

Nothing so wonderfully concentrates the mind as theprospect of a hanging.

Do not tell me the problem is a difficult one. If it were not difficult, it would not be a problem

Ifanyone is not willing to accept your point of view, try to see his point of view.

... That may appear as the truth to one personwill often appear as untruth to another person. But that need not worry theseeker. Where there is honest effort, it will be realized that what appearedto be different truths are like the countless and apparen

Adversity introduces a man to himself.

Happiness is the wondrous commodity, the more your give; the more you have.