We are not determined by our experiences, but are self-determined by the meaning we give to them; and when we take particular experiences as the basis for our future life, we are almost certain to be misguided to some degree. Meanings are not determined by situations. We determine ourselves by the meanings we ascribe to situations.

You can be healed of depression if every day you begin the first thing in the morning to consider how you will bring a real joy to someone else.

It is one of the triumphs of human wit ... to conquer by humility and submissiveness ... to make oneself small in order to appear great ... such ... are often the expedients of the neurotic.

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

It is the patriotic duty of every man to lie for his country.

Man knows much more than he understands.

To all those who walk the path of human cooperation war must appear loathsome and inhuman.