Ignorance is a form of environmental pollution.

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.

The purpose of getting power is to be able to give itaway.

Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

If wemanage conflict constructively, we harness its energy for creativity and development.

People whoare too concerned with how well they are doing will be less successful andfeel less competent than those who focus on the task itself... Somepsychologists call it a conflict between egoorientation, or between extrinsicand intrinsic motivation...

There is something monstrous in commands couched in invented and unfamiliar language, an alien master is the worst of all. The language of the law must not be foreign to the ears of those who are to obey it.

Old fools are more foolish than you ones.

The grand essentials of happiness are: something to do something to love, and something to hope for.

You can't unscramble an egg.

Treatpeople as if they were, what they ought to be andyou help them become what they are capable of being.

Speak whenyou are angry and you will make the best speech you will ever regret.