In Prayer it is better to have a Heart without Words than words without a Heart.

Surprise is the greatest gift which life can grant us.

Our distrust is very expensive.

A lifemaking mistakes is not only more honorable, butmore useful than a life spent doing nothing at all.

Saying nothing... sometimes says the most.

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.

The laws of life are founded on necessity, its charms on the non-essentials.

Even to observe neutrality you must have a strong government

If you arepatient in a moment of anger, you will escape a hundred days of sorrow.

No man everdid a designed injury to another, but at the same time he did a greater tohimself .

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.

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