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.

I hold it to be a proof of great prudence for men toabstain from threats and insulting words toward an enemy, for neither ...diminishes the strength of the enemy; but the one makes him more cautious,and the other increases his hatred of you and makes him

Life imitates art far more that art imitates life.

Don'twrestle a pig in a mud hole. You both get all dirty, and the pig enjoys it.

Be yourself and speak your mind today, though it contradicts all you have said before.

Better ask ten times than go astray once.

Negotiatingin the classic diplomatic sense assumes parties are more anxious to agreethan to disagree.

A state with defective laws will have defective morals.

You canoutdistance that which is running after you, but not what is running insideyou.

I love power. But it is as an artist that I love it. Ilove it as a musician loves his violin, to draw out its sounds and chords andharmonies.

Happiness is the art of making a bouquet of those flowers within reach.

Thereverse side also has a reverse side.