We are always children to our mothers.
You should not want to know the things in people's minds. If you were meant to hear them, they would be said.
People's weaker side is not necessarily their truer self.
A leopard does not change his spots, or change his feeling that spots are rather a credit.
Real life seems to have no plots.
[On writing:] What a difficult kind of work to choose! But of course one did not choose it. There was no choice.