Make the best use of what is in your power, and take therest as it happens.

Anyone whoconducts an argument by appealing to authority is not using his intelligence,just his memory.

The art of writing is the art of restraint.

Man's life would be wretched and confined if it were to missthe candid intimacy developed by mutual trust and esteem.

The more you seat in peace, the less you bleed in war

The possession of power over others in inherently destructiveboth to the possessor of the power and to those over whom it is exercised.

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.

Badplanning on your part does not constitute an emergency on my part.

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.

I love power. But it is as an artist that I love it. Ilove it as a musician loves his violin, to draw out its sounds and chords andharmonies.

Evil alone has oil for every wheel

I know youbelieve you understand what you think I said, but I'm not sure you realizethat what you heard isn't what I meant.