Luck never mad a mad man wise

Onemight as well try to ride two horses moving in different directions, as totry to maintain in equal force two opposing or contradictory sets of desires.

Nine times out of ten, we are disappointed in life because we don't ask enough of it.

The exercise of power is determined by thousands ofinteractions between the world of the powerful and that of the powerless, allthe more so because these worlds are never divided by a sharp line: everyonehas a small part of himself in both.

Knowledge is of two kinds, we know a subject ourselves or we know where we can get information upon it.

True miracle are created by men when they use the courage and intelligence God has given him

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.

Badplanning on your part does not constitute an emergency on my part.

Habit: the shackles of the free

The Shortest distance between two jokes makess a perfect speech.

Ninety-ninepercent of all problems in communications start with misunderstandings whichdevelop as a result of differing viewpoints and conditioning.

Power is not a means, it is an end. One does not establisha dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolutionin order to establish the dictatorship.