it isn't good tactics to ask for something that you know will be refused.

Being in a rage was rather like being out in a thunderstorm - you couldn't hear yourself think.

The fact is, for most of us, what happens to ourselves is so much more important than what happens to other people that the smallest mote in our own eye will prevent us from being unduly harrowed by someone else's beam.

Emotion which you do not share can become intolerable.

Things you can't understand are always the hardest to bear. To know why is the first step to consolation.

A lie that is half a truth is ever the hardest to fight.

It is always better to say too little than too much.