Power is a little like alcohol: the faster it is consumed, the more quickly it affects the brain.

What dowe live for, if it is not to make life less difficult for each other.

As we grow old...the beauty steals inwards.

Differentfields, different grasshoppers; different seas, different fish.

Imagination grows by excercise and in more powerful in the mature rather than in the young.

When makinga decision of minor importance, I have always found it advantageous toconsider all the pros and cons. In vital matters, however, such as the choiceof a mate or a profession, the decision should come from the unconscious,from somewhere within ou

Only hethat has traveled the road knows where the holesare deep.

A happy family is but an earlier heaven.

You canobserve a lot by just watching.

It is a strange desire, to seek power, and to loseliberty; or to seek power over others, and to lose power over a man's self.

I like to listen. I have learned a great deal from listening carefully. Most peoplenever listen.

The function of genius is to furnish cretins with ideas twenty year later.