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.

Reasonguides but a small part of man, and the rest obeys feeling, true or false,and passion, good or bad.

A goodpreparation takes longer than the delivery.

Compromise,n. Such an adjustment of conflicting interests as gives each adversary thesatisfaction of thinking he has got what he ought not to have, and isdeprived of nothing except what was justly his due.

The Older I get, the more I judge people by their character and not by their ideas.

Effectivecommunication is 20 percent what you know and 80 percent how you feel aboutwhat you know.

Far better to think historically, to remember the lessonsof the past. Thus, far better to conceive of power as consisting in part ofthe knowledge of when not to use all the power you have. Far better to be onewho knows that if you reserve the power not to

Without trust, words become the hollow sound of a woodengong. With trust, words become life itself.

The tormentof human frustration, whatever its immediate cause, is the knowledge that theself is in prison, its vital force and ‘mangled mind’ leaking away in lonely,wasteful self-conflict.

Suffering is the sole origin of consciousness.

Familiarize yourself with the chains of bondage and you prepare your own limbs to wear them.

Skillin the art of communication is crucial to a leader's success. He canaccomplish nothing unless he can communicate effectively.