Alwaysforgive your enemies. Nothing annoys them so much.

There are three ways of bearing ills of life: by indifference, by philosophy, and by religion.

The greatest virtue of man is perhaps curiosity.

The darkest hour has only 60 minutes

He whocannot cut the bread evenly cannot get on well with people.

Nature arms each man with some faculty which enables himto do easily some feat impossible to any other.

Pleasure is by no means an infallible critical guide, but it is the least fallible.

Whenelephants fight, it is the grass who suffers.

I'm nota combative person. My long experience has taught me to resolve conflict byraising the issues before I or others burn their boats.

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.

When makinga decision of minor importance, I have always found it advantageous toconsider all the pros and cons. In vital matters, however, such as the choiceof a mate or a profession, the decision should come from the unconscious,from somewhere within ou

Nothing astonishes men so much as common sense and plain dealing.