Necessity truns lion into fox.

Most of the shadows of this life are caused by our standing in our own sunshine.

Compromise.Such an adjustment of conflicting interests as gives each adversary thesatisfaction of thinking he has got what he ought not to have, and isdeprived of nothing except what was justly his due.

Always the dullness of the fool is the whetstone of the wits

The difficulty of speeches is what you are perpetually poised between the ciche and the indiscretion

If all those who speak would weigh their words, how light air would be!

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.

Most of our so-called reasoning consists in finding arguments for going on believingas we already do.

Amarriage without conflicts is almost as inconceivable as a nation without crises.

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

Onceyou consent to some concession, you can never cancel it and put things backthe way they are.

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