The great advantage of a hotel is that it's a refuge from home life.

Every advantage has its tax

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.

Inspiration comes of working every day.

Peoplespend a lifetime searching for happiness; looking for peace. They chase idledreams, addictions, religions, even other people, hoping to fill theemptiness that plagues them. The irony is the only place they ever needed tosearch was within.

Ultimately, the only power to which man should aspire isthat which he exercises over himself.

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

The liberty of the individual must be thus far limited: He must not make himself a nuisance to other people.

The more we see, the more we shall be able to imagine, and the more we imagine, the more we must think we see.

Standingin the middle of the road is very dangerous; you get knocked down by thetraffic from both sides.

Truth is strengthened by observation and delay; falsehood by haste and uncertainity.

To live is, in itself, avalue judgement. To breathe is to judge.