People who have power respond simply. They have no minds but their own.
I am ill at ease with people whose lives are an open book.
It will be a beautiful family talk, mean and worried and full of sorrow and spite and excitement.
Magnifying a matter is not the way to mend it.
You should not want to know the things in people's minds. If you were meant to hear them, they would be said.
It is no good to think that other people are out to serve our interests.