Perhaps if we lived with less physical beauty we would develop our true natures more.

... one doesn't really profit from experience; one merely learns to predict the next mistake.

What you fear most will happen to you - that is the law.

Human beings need unhappiness at least as much as they need happiness.

There is balance in life, but not fairness.

I never had, or wished for, power over you. That isn't true, of course. I wanted the greatest power of all. but not advantage, or authority.

I wasn't convinced a shop girl would know the word 'Oedipal.