Anybody possessing analytical knowledge recognizes the fact that the world is full of actions performed by people exclusively to their detriment and without perceptible advantage, although their eyes were open.

It was strange to find that love does not spring from abundance and richness of the ego, but is a way out of inner distress and poverty. We were surprised to discover that our first love is not directed either to another person or to ourselves, but to an imaginary ideal ego, to an image of ourselves as we would like to be. There are stranger discoveries awaiting us the more deeply we grope in the dark and the further we intrude into the secret places of the human heart.

Even the wisest men make fools of themselves about women, and even the most foolish women are wise about men.

Romance fails us and so do friendships, but the relationship of parent and child, less noisy than all the others, remains indelible and indestructible, the strongest relationship on earth.

In order to be happy oneself it is necessary to make at least one other person happy.

In our civilization men are afraid they will not be man enough, and women are afraid that they might be considered only women.

Even the wisest men make fools of themselves about women, and even the most foolish women are wise about men

The secret of human happiness is not in self-seeking but in self-forgetting.

Great innovators and original thinkers and artists attract the wrath of mediocrities as lightning rods draw the flashes.

To express unafraid and unashamed what one really thinks and feels is one of the great consolations of life.