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.

A book is a mirror; if an ass peers into it, you can't expect an apostle to peer out.

A life makingmistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doingnothing at all.

Far better to think historically, to remember the lessonsof the past. Thus, far better to conceive of power as consisting in part ofthe knowledge of when not to use all the power you have. Far better to be onewho knows that if you reserve the power not to

A status symbol is an instrument you clash when you want someone to know you are there.

Learning, the destroyer of arrogance, begets arrogance in fools, even as light that illumines the eye, makes owls blind.

Teaching may contribute to certain kinds of learning under certain circumstances.

It ishard to change our point of view in a conflict. Most often, it is because weare not nearly as interested in resolving the conflict and possibly creatinga new ‘pearl’ as we are in being right.

Silencemay be golden, but can you think of a better way to entertain someone than tolisten to him?

Every man is wanted; and no man is wanted much.

A caricature is always ture only for an instant.

The present is never a happy state to any being