Commonsense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.

The true test of intelligence is not how much people know how to do, but how they behave when they don't know what to do.

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.

A book, like a landscape, is a state of consciouness varying with readers.

It isnot necessary to understand things in order to argue about them.

Take yourlife into your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing, no one toblame.

Who can say more than rich praise, that you alone are you?

All the power that we exercise over others depends on thepower we exercise over ourselves.

The greatest prayer is patience.

I have discovered the art of deceiving diplomats. I speakthe truth, and they never believe me.

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.

The fire you kindle for your enemy often burns yourself more than him.