Silenceis a true friend that never betrays.

Tofight and conquer in all your battles is not supreme excellence; supremeexcellence consists in breaking the enemy's resistance without fighting.

Youdon't run twenty-six miles at five minutes a mile on good looks and a secretrecipe.

One must be poor to know the luxury of giving.

Mensucceed when they realize that their failures are the preparation for theirvictories.

If you could kick the person in the pants responsible for most of your trouble, youwouldn't sit for a month.

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

Power consists in one's capacity to link his will with thepurpose of others, to lead by reason and a gift of cooperation.

Thetruth is that our finest moments are most likely to occur when we are feelingdeeply uncomfortable, unhappy, or unfulfilled. For it is only in suchmoments, propelled by our discomfort, that we are likely to step out of ourruts and start searching for di

Tact is the ability to make a person see the lightning without letting him feel the bolt.

Every kind of peaceful cooperation among men is primarily basedon mutual trust and only secondarily on institutions such as courts ofjustice and police.