Long-rangeplanning works best in the short term.

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.

The oldbelieve everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young knoweverything.

We thought, because we had power, we had wisdom.

All marriedcouples should learn the art of battle as they should learn the art of makinglove. Good battle is objective and honest never vicious or cruel. Good battleis healthy and constructive, and brings to a marriage the principle of equalpartnership.

It is said that power corrupts, but actually it's moretrue that power attracts the corruptible. The sane are usually attracted byother things than power.

You can be erudite with knowledge of others; you can be wise only with your wisdom.

To understand everything is to forgive everything.

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.

When you choose the lesses of two evils always remember there is still an evil.

Can we do good to the world? In an absolute sense, no; in a relative sense, yes.

The most successful man in the life is the man who has the best information.