Intelligence is not to make no mistakes, but quickly to see how to make them good.

If youare standing upright, don't worry if your shadow is crooked.

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.

It is only when men begin to worship that they begin to grow.

Most of our so-called reasoning consists in finding arguments for going on believingas we already do.

Makesure you leave some fat for the other side.

You make a mountain of a mole-hill.

Discord gives a relish to concord.

Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want totest a man's character, give him power.

Duringthe Depression, or back when we were fighting Hitler, people didn't have timeto sue a company if the coffee was too hot. There were urgent, pressingproblems. If you think you have it tough, read history books.

There'sno point in arguing with partisan supporters. Their views are their identity.Nothing you can tell the most phlegmatic follower.

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.