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.

Conflictlies at the core of innovation.

Peacecan not be kept by force. It can only be won, through understanding. Ourlonging for understandingis Eternal.

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.

Talkingcomes by nature, silence by wisdom.

The numberone goal in resolving a conflict is to make sure both sides maintain theirself-esteem.

Conflictis the gadfly of thought. It stirs us to observation and memory. Itinstigates to invention. It shocks us out of sheeplikepassivity, and sets us at noting and contriving.

Kindwords do not cost much. Yet they accomplish much.

An honest man's word is as good as his bond.

Thereis no such thing as absolute value in this world. You can only estimate whata thing is worth to 'you.'

The bird a nest, the spider a web, man friendship.

We own almostall our knowledge not to those who have agreed but to those who havediffered.