Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone.

Our distrust is very expensive.

To rule is not so much a question of the heavy hand as the firm seat.

Prayrer changes things by changing people.

Since God made us to be originals, why stoop to be a copy?

Years wrinkle the face, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul.

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.

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.

Nature's instructions are always slow, those of men are generally premature.

Friendships begin with liking or gratitude-roots that can be pulled up.

Patience is something you admire in the driver behind you and scorn in the one ahead.

First-rate men employ first-rate men; second-rate men employ third-rate men.