The chief danger in life is that you may take too many precautions.

Men of genius are admired, men of wealth are envied, men of power are feared; but only men of character are trusted.

What person, confined in a small room with nothing but a tea-cosy, will not eventually put the tea-cosy on their head?

seeing with the eyes of another, listening with the ears of another, and feeling with the heart of another.

Courage is not an ability one either possess or lacks. Courage is the willingness to engage in a risk-taking behavior regardless of whether the consequences are unknown or possibly adverse. We are capable of courageous behavior provided we are willing to engage in it. Given that life offers few guarantees, all living requires risk-taking.

It is one of the most effective attitudes of the neurotic to measure thumbs down, so to speak, a real person by an ideal, since in doing so he can depreciate him as much as he wishes.

It is the individual who is not interested in his fellow men who has the greatest difficulties in life and provides the greatest injury to others. It is fro+m among such individuals that all human failures spring.