Listening,not imitation, may be the sincerest form of flattery.

Two prisonerswhose cells adjoin communicate with each other by knocking on the wall. Thewall is the thing which separates them but is also their means ofcommunication. It is the same with us and God. Every separation is a link.

Power is the faculty or capacity to act, the strength andpotency to accomplish something. It is the vital energy to make choices anddecisions. It also includes the capacity to overcome deeply embedded habitsand to cultivate higher, more effective ones.

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.

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.

Difficultiesare meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong byconflict.

The hand of liberty is stronger than arms of power.

The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.

We do not err because the truth is difficult to see. We err because this is more comfortable

Humour is emotional chaos remembered in tranquility.

People who do not believe in miracles are not realist.

A cup is useful only when it is empty; and a mind that is filled with beliefs, with dogmas, with assertions, with quotations, is really an uncreative mind.