Compromise,n. 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.

Health and Cheerfulness mutually begets each other.

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.

Where love rules, there is no will to power; and wherepower predominates, there love is lacking. The one is the shadow of theother.

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.

Trust begets trust and untrust begets untrust. It'snatural.

Folly is perennial and yet the human race has survived

To believe in something, and not to live it, is dishonest.

All the power that we exercise over others depends on thepower we exercise over ourselves.

Nevermiss a good chance to shut up.

Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up.

I love power. But it is as an artist that I love it. Ilove it as a musician loves his violin, to draw out its sounds and chords andharmonies.