Comedy is an escape, not from the truth but from despair; a narrow escape into faith.

Life has become a struggle between keeping your weight down and you spirits up.

To know the pains of power, we must go to those who have it;to know its pleasures, we must go to those who are seeking it.

Power is the faculty or capacity to act, the strength andpotency to accomplish something. It is the vital energy to make choices anddecisions. It also includes the capacity to overcome deeply embedded habitsand to cultivate higher, more effective ones.

In anyfree society, the conflict between social conformity and individual libertyis permanent, unresolvable, and necessary.

All that is sometimes needed to make you content with you lot is a bad dream.

The strongest is never strong enough to be always, the master, unless he transforms strength into right, and obedience into duty.

Nothing makes it easier to resist temptation than a proper upbringing, a sound set of values.

To like and dislike the same thing, that is, indeed, friendship.

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

Differentfields, different grasshoppers; different seas, different fish.

Analysis kills spontaneity.The grain once ground to floor,springs and germinates no more.