Whenmen and women agree, it is only in their conclusions; their reasons arealways different.

It is a strange desire, to seek power, and to loseliberty; or to seek power over others, and to lose power over a man's self.

A goodplan is like a road map: it shows the final destination and usually the bestway to get there.

When one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world.

Growth for the sake of growth is the ideology of cancer cell.

Thepast is malleable and flexible, changing as our recollection interprets andre-explains what has happened.

No onecan persuade another to change. Each of us guards a gate of change that canonly be opened from the inside. We cannot open the gate of another, either byargument or emotional appeal.

Enthusiasm sees only the down payment.

Dealwith the faults of others as gently as with your own.

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 large ocean liner was headed across the Atlantic fromPortsmouth to New York. As it neared its destination at night, a lookout onthe wing of the bridge reported, ‘Light, bearing on the starboardbow.’‘Is it steady or moving astern?’ the captain called out

One cannot be precise and still be pure.