Use softwords and hard arguments.

Only the educated are free.

The difficultpart in an argument is not to defend one's opinion, but rather to know it.

You may give gifts without caring, but you can't care without giving

Old wood best of burn, old friend to trust and old authors to read.

If Ishould ever be captured, I want no negotiation—andif I should request a negotiation from captivity they should consider that asign of duress.

Negotiatingmeans getting the best of your opponent.

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.

Symanpathy is a supporting atmosphere, and in it we unfold easily and well

Drown not thyself to save a drowning man

A large ocean liner was headed across the Atlantic fromPortsmouth to New York. As it neared its destination at night, a lookout onthe wing of the bridge reported, ‘Light, bearing on the starboardbow.’‘Is it steady or moving astern?’ the captain called out

Neverforget the power of silence, that massively disconcerting pause which goes onand on and may at last induce an opponent to babble and backtrack nervously.