“I am perhaps more capable than anyone else of understanding and realizing the nature and the whole life of the various German castes.”

“It is life that educates, and perhaps love more than anything else in life.”

“Like Olympic medals and tennis trophies, all they signified was that the owner had done something of no benefit to anyone more capably than everyone else.”

“I'm not bossy - I just happen to be more capable than most everyone else.”

“I wonder if I am capable of being somebody’s sun, somebody’s everything. Am I centered enough now to be the center of somebody else’s life?”

“Home life as we understand it is no more natural to us than a cage is natural to a cockatoo.”

“there's nothing more intimate in life than simply being understood. And understanding someone else.”

“At 83 Shaw's mind was perhaps not quite as good as it used to be, but it was still better than anyone else's.”

“Now that I know that I am no wiser than anyone else, does this wisdom make me wiser?”

“I must learn more about these people―try to understand them, put myself in their place. No, instead I am so busy keeping my head above water that I scarcely know who I am, much less who anyone else is.”