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.

Asingle conversation with a wise man is better than ten years of study.

Zeal is fit only for wise men but is found mostly infools.

A wise man has great power, and a man of knowledgeincreases strength.

To have a respect for ourselves guides our morals; to have a deference for others governs our manners.

Mandoes not live by words alone, despite the fact that sometimes he has to eatthem.

The prevalent fear of poverty among the educated classes is the worst moral disease from which our civilization suffers.

The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn.

A man may die, nations may rise and fall, but an idea lives Ideas have endurance without death.

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

I know youbelieve you understand what you think I said, but I'm not sure you realizethat what you heard isn't what I meant.

The hand of liberality is stronger than the arm of power.