An honest man's word is as good as his bond.

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.

The louder the talked of his honour, the faster we counted our spoons.

Almost all four faults are more pardonable than the methods we think up to hide them

Honesty and Wisdom are such a delightful pastime, at another person's expense !

It wasimpossible to get a conversation going, everybody was talking too much.

Character is a by-product; it is produced in the great manufacture of daily duty.

Love arrives on tiptoe and bangs the door when it leaves.

It'snot hard to make decisions when you know what your values are.

A man of great common sense and good taste-meaning there a man without originality or moral courage.

Philosophy begins in wonder. And, at the end, when philosophic thought has done its best, the wonder remains.

Thetruth is that our finest moments are most likely to occur when we are feelingdeeply uncomfortable, unhappy, or unfulfilled. For it is only in suchmoments, propelled by our discomfort, that we are likely to step out of ourruts and start searching for di