Few things help an individual more than to placeresponsibility upon him, and to let him know that you trust him.

Speak whenyou are angry and you will make the best speech you will ever regret.

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.

Everyoneis kneaded out of the same dough but not baked in the same oven.

Power will intoxicate the best hearts, as wine thestrongest heads. No man is wise enough, nor good enough to be trusted withunlimited power.

Itisn't that they can't see the solution. It's that they can't see the problem.

The wicked are not always clever, nor are dictators always right.

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

The split in you is clear. There is a part of you that knows what it shoulddo, and a part that does what it feels like doing.

The thoughts that come often unsought, and as it were, drop into the mind, are commonly the most valuable of any we have.

Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself, but talent instantly recognises genius.

Gossip is that which no one claims to like-but everybody enjoys.