Never make a defense or an apology until you are accused.
The perfect bureaucrat everywhere is the man who manages to make no decisions and escape all responsibility.
It's wonderful what we can do if we're always doing.
Only dull people are brilliant at breakfast.
What other dungeon is so dark as one's own heart! What jailer so inexorable as one's self!
Even the fear of death is nothing compared to the fear of not having lived authentically and fully.
No man remains quite what he was when he recognizes himself.