Power is something of which I am convinced there is no innocencethis side of the womb.

... That may appear as the truth to one personwill often appear as untruth to another person. But that need not worry theseeker. Where there is honest effort, it will be realized that what appearedto be different truths are like the countless and apparen

Flatteryis the infantry of negotiation.

A merefriend will agree with you, but a real friend will argue.

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 man without imagination is like a bird without wings.

Pleasure is the sincerest compliment.

Do not tell me the problem is a difficult one. If it were not difficult, it would not be a problem

Comedy is an escape, not from the truth but from despair; a narrow escape into faith.

Trust is difficult to define, but we know when it's presentand when it's not.

Life imitates art far more that art imitates life.

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.