Most human beings, though in varying degrees, desire to control, not only their own lives but also the lives of others

You are a wicked motorcar, and I shall not give you any more petrol until you go.

A truer image of the world, I think, is obtained by picturing things as entering into the stream of time from an eternal world outside, than from a view which regards time as the devouring tyrant of all that is.

It is false to suggest that men must turn away from his desires in the interest of a higher duty. Men only responds to duty if he desires to do so. To understand men, you must understand their desires and the relative strength of those desires.

The thing that I should wish to obtain from money would be leisure with security.

Patience and boredom are closely related. Boredom, a certain kind of boredom, is really impatience. You don't like the way things are, they aren't interesting enough for you, so you deccide- and boredom is a decision-that you are bored.

Even in the most purely logical realms, it is insight that first arrives at what is new.