“Don’t Give Someone Responsibility without Requisite Authority”
“[...] the responsibility for their wellbeing and for the fundamental meaning they give to their own life must, in adulthood, be theirs. To accept the burden that someone 'can't live without you' is unrealistic. It infantilises that person and overburdens you. p.226”
“If you want to check someone's principles, give him authority .. Then have a seat & watch”
“Leave no authority existing not responsible to the people.”
“The first requisite for success is the ability to apply your physical and mental energies to one problem incessantly without growing weary.”
“The nails from a suicide's coffin, and the skull of the parricide, were of course no trouble; for Vesquit never traveled without these household requisites.”