Weakness is a better teacher than strength. Weakness must learn to understand the obstacles that strength brushes aside.

Curiosity is an asset mostly frittered away.

Profusion gives pleasure up to a point; then we become squeamish.

A successful restaurant makes everything in it, including the patrons, seem a little better than they are.

Jealousy fuses megalomania and self-abandonment.

The self-righteous rule out the possibility that they are what has gone wrong.

No dignity without distance.