Once a suggestion has entered the general atmosphere of human thought, it is very difficult to neutralise it.

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

Too much information can be as disconcerting as too little.

It is the man who is sure of himself who disregards the opinion of the world. To be sure is to have power.

... the things that happened in your body were never as bad as the things that happened in your mind.

Anger was both a disfiguring and a revealing passion.

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