Detente is a readiness to resolve differences and conflicts not by force, not by threats and sabre-rattling, but by peaceful means, at the conference table.

There is nothing more practical than a good theory.

The highest peace is the peace between opposites.

One sits the whole day at the desk and appetite is standing next to me. "Away with you," I say. But Comrade Appetite does not budge from the spot.

Whatever else may divide us, Europe is our common home; a common fate has linked us through the centuries, and it continues to link us today.

The trouble with free elections is, you never know who is going to win.

We Communists have to string along with the capitalists for a while. We need their agriculture and their technology.