The hardest thing to disguise is you feelings when you put a lot of relatives on the train for home.

Thetorment of human frustration, whatever its immediate cause,is the knowledge that the self is in prison, its vital force and ‘mangledmind’ leaking away in lonely, wasteful self-conflict.

Fortune makes a fool of him whom she favours too much

Labour with what zeal we will. Something still remains undone.

I love power. But it is as an artist that I love it. Ilove it as a musician loves his violin, to draw out its sounds and chords andharmonies.

Amarriage without conflicts is almost as inconceivable as a nation without crises.

I hold it to be a proof of great prudence for men toabstain from threats and insulting words toward an enemy, for neither ...diminishes the strength of the enemy; but the one makes him more cautious,and the other increases his hatred of you and makes him

Power is no blessing in itself, except when it is used toprotect the innocent.

No doctor is a good doctor who has never been ill himself.

The larger the island of knowledge, the longer the shoreline of wonder.

Youcannot truly listen to anyone and do anything else at the same time.

Pleasure is by no means an infallible critical guide, but it is the least fallible.