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.

Whohath not known ill fortune, never knew himself, or his own virtue.

We think too small. Like the frog at the bottom of the well. He thinks the sky is only as big as the top of the well. If he surfaced, he would have an entirely different view.

The king goes as far as he may, not as far as he could.

It seemedrather incongruous that in a society of super sophisticated communication, weoften suffer from a shortage of listeners.

True youth is a quality which is acquired only with age.

It is less dangerous to treat most men badly than to treat them too well.

I like to listen. I have learned a great deal from listening carefully. Most peoplenever listen.

A large ocean liner was headed across the Atlantic fromPortsmouth to New York. As it neared its destination at night, a lookout onthe wing of the bridge reported, ‘Light, bearing on the starboardbow.’‘Is it steady or moving astern?’ the captain called out

Duty largely consists of pretending that the trivial is critical

Pleasant words are the food of love.

True friendship comes when silence between two people is comfortable