Article 9

I have enjoyed greatly the second blooming... suddenly you find - at the age of 50, say - that a whole new life has opened before you.
It is easier to exclude harmful passions than to rule them, and to deny them admittance than to control them after they have been admitted.
In the right light, at the right time, everything is extraordinary.
A conference is a gathering of important people who singly can do nothing, but together can decide that nothing can be done.
Do what you feel in your heart to be right - for you'll be criticized anyway. You'll be damned if you do, and damned if you don't.
Be careful that victories do not carry the seed of future defeats.
In real life, unlike in Shakespeare, the sweetness of the rose depends upon the name it bears. Things are not only what they are. They are, in very important respects, what they seem to be.