What wesee depends mainly on what we look for.

Measurement of life should be rather proportioned to the intensity of experience than it's actual length.

Poetry is the impish attempt to paint the colour of the wind.

Let not thy will roar, when the power can but whisper.

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.

The oldbelieve everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young knoweverything.

Thoroughnesscharacterizes all successful men. Genius is the art of taking infinite pains.All great achievement has been characterized by extreme care, infinitepainstaking, even to the minutest detail.

Superioty and inferiority are individual, not racial or national.

He whocannot cut the bread evenly cannot get on well with people.

Allthings at first appear difficult.

The laws of life are founded on necessity, its charms on the non-essentials.

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