Thefibers of all things have their tension and are strained like the strings ofan instrument.

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.

It is easier to be brave from a safe distance.

Happiness is a choice that requires affort at times.

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

The highest pleasure to be got out of freedom, and having nothing to do, is labour

A woman can say more in a sigh than a man can say in a sermon.

Aclosed mind is like a closed book; just a block of wood.

A half-truth won for ourselves is worth more than a whole truth learned from others.

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.

Itmatters not whether you win or lose; what matters is whether I win or lose.

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