The bad gardener quarrels with his rake.

To sit alone in the lamp light with a book spread out before you-such is a pleasure beyond compare.

The most important things are the hardest to say, because words diminish them.

Take yourlife into your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing, no one toblame.

Mistakes are to Life what shadows are to Light.

Nothing do I regret more in my student life that thay my teachers were not my friends

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.

If you are standing upright, don't worry if your shadow is crooked.

Pleasure is the sincerest compliment.

Nevermistake silence for agreement.

The possession of power over others in inherently destructiveboth to the possessor of the power and to those over whom it is exercised.

When indoubt, ask. When not in doubt, ask. If you are not in doubt, you may bekidding yourself.