The great advantage of a hotel is that it's a refuge from home life.

Truepeace is not merely the absence of tension: it is the presence of justice.

We areall faced with a series of great opportunities brilliantly disguised asimpossible situations.

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.

It is a strange desire to seek power and to lose liberty,or to seek power over others and to lose power over a man's self.

Character is a by-product; it is produced in the great manufacture of daily duty.

Stability is not immobility

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.

It is less dangerous to treat most men badly than to treat them too well.

Don'tclose the barn door after the horse runs away.

A person who talks about his Inferiors han't any.

Patience is something you admire in the driver behind you and scorn in the one ahead.