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

Whoever is winning the race will always seem to be invincible.

We make our friends, we make our enemies, but God makes our next-door neighbours.

There are always two forces warring against each other within us.

Distancedoesn't matter. It is only the first step that is difficult.

Kindness is never wasted. If it has no effect on the recepient, at least it benefits the bestower.

Knowingthat everything's futile but still fighting, still raging against the dying ofthe light that's what motivates me all the time ... If you hold that sense offutility in your head for too long, it can begin to eat into you. You canstill be aware of it

You can't go very far if you don't begin very near.

Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

Man wonders over the restless Sea........ the flowing waters...... the sight of the sky....... and forgets that as all wonders, man him self is the mast wonderful.

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.