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.

Nothingstrengthens the judgment and quickens the conscience like individualresponsibility.

Any general statement is like a cheque drawn on a bank. Its value depends on what is there to meet it.

Ignorancedoesn't kill you, but it does make you sweat a lot.

Prepareby knowing your walk away [conditions] and by building the number ofvariables you can work with during the negotiation... you need to have a walkaway... a combination of price, terms, and deliverables that represents theleast you will accept. Witho

You canobserve a lot by just watching.

Ifthere is any great secret of success in life, it lies in the ability to putyourself in the other person’s place and to see things from his point of view as well as your own.

There is no knowledge that is not power.

Power is no blessing in itself, except when it is used toprotect the innocent.

He who is unable to dance says the yard is stony.

If you are distressed by anything external, the pain isnot due to the thing itself but to your own estimate of it; and this you havethe power to revoke at any moment.

Between friends there is no need of Justice.