you cannot build character and courage by taking away man's initiatives and independence.

If you are distressed by anything external, the pain isnot due to the thing itself but to your own estimate of it; and this you havethe power to revoke at any moment.

Somewherethere is a map of how it can be done.

Youcan't turn back the clock. But you can wind it up again.

Power tires only those who do not have it.

If I giveyou an egg, and you give me an egg, we will each have one egg.

Constantrepetition carries conviction.

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

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.

Encouragement after censure is as the sun after a shower.

As longas you keep a person down, some part of you has to be down there to hold him down,so it means you cannot soar as you otherwise might.

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.