Ignorance is a form of environmental pollution.

If absolute power corrupts absolutely, does absolutepowerlessness make you pure?

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.

A goodplan is like a road map: it shows the final destination and usually the bestway to get there.

Wordsare, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind.

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.

Trust resides squarely between faith and doubt.

Whodigs a pit for others will fall in themselves.

Thereis nothing more likely to start disagreement among people or countries thanan agreement.

Ittakes nine months to have a baby, no matter how many people you put on thejob.

Our errors are steps on the way.

Peoplewho are too concerned with how well they are doing will be less successfuland feel less competent than those who focus on the task itself... Somepsychologists call it a conflict between egoorientation,or between extrinsic and intrinsic motivation…