One of the best ways of keeping your temper in an argument, as most of us know only too well, is not to listen to anything the other person has to say.

He has given ample evidence of qualities hardly any other living statesman has demonstrated to the same degree: the courage to look facts in the face and to seek flexible solutions, respect for others, give-and-take in dialog situations, absence of hypocrisy, a complete absence of grandeur in the conduct of his personal life. He has never been driven by blind self-assertion to make absurd decisions.

The grandiose person is never really free; first because he is excessively dependent on admiration from others, and second, because his self-respect is dependent on qualities, functions, and achievements that can suddenly fail.

An unacknowledged trauma is like a wound that never heals over and may start to bleed again at any time.

Children who are respected learn respect. Children who are cared for learn to care for those weaker than themselves. Children who are loved for what they are cannot learn intolerance. In an environment such as this, they will develop their own ideals, which can be nothing other than humane, since they grew out of the experience of love.

We can never do the right thing as long as we are out to please someone else.

If a mother respects both herself and her child from his very first day onward, she will never need to teach him respect for others.