It is sometimes hard to grasp the difference between identifying with one's own roots, understanding people with other roots, and judging what is good or bad.

The more things you know, or pretend to know, the more powerful you are. It doesn't matter if the things are true. What counts, remember, is to possess a secret.

Our most noted satirists are true columnists and their opinions can be worth more than any well-documented exposé.

Naturally, everything depends on one's background books and on what one is looking for.

Whoever reflects on four things I would be better if he were never born: that which is above, that which is below, that which is before, that which is after.

Love flourishes in expectation. Expectation strolls through the spacious fields of Time towards Opportunity.

Your masters at Oxford have taught you to idolize reason, drying up the prophetic capacities of your heart!