Whenanger comes, wisdom goes.

Optimists and pessimists have one fault in common: they are afraid of the truth.

The soul would have no rainbow, if the eyes had no tears.

Man is born free, and everywhere is is in chains

Glory is a poison that can only be taken in small doses.

Considerhow hard it is to change yourself and you'll understand what little chanceyou have in trying to change others.

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.

Thedifficult part in an argument is not to defend one's opinion, but rather toknow it.

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.

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.

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

I have learned through bitter experience the one supremelesson to conserve my anger, and as heat conserved is transmitted into energy,even so our anger controlled can be transmitted into a power that can movethe world.