Fanaticism is the false fire of an overheated mind.

The ability to laugh together is the essence of love.

Pessimism, when you get used to it, is just as agreeable as optimism.

Flatteryis the infantry of negotiation.

Grantgraciously what you cannot refuse safely and conciliate those you cannotconquer.

Opportunists take now for an answer.

True youth is a quality which is acquired only with age.

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

Talkingjaw-jaw is always better than war-war.

Insteadof suppressing conflicts, specific channels could be created to make thisconflict explicit, and specific methods could be set up by which the conflictis resolved.

There is nobody so irritating as somebody with less intelligence and more sense than we have.

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.