What do you first do when you learn to swim? You make mistakes, do you not? And what happens? You make other mistakes, and when you have made all the mistakes you possibly can without drowning - and some of them many times over - what do you find? That you can swim? Well - life is just the same as learning to swim! Do not be afraid of making mistakes, for there is no other way of learning how to live!

Meanings are not determined by situations, but we determine ourselves by the meanings we give to situations.

Every pampered child becomes a hated child.... There is no greater evil than the pampering of children.

I am grateful for the idea that has used me.

The only worthwhile achievements of man are those which are socially useful.

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

Every individual acts and suffers in accordance with his peculiar teleology, which has all the inevitability of fate, so long as he does not understand it.