The selection of leadership must follow practical considerations. Maybe I look at things too pessimistically?

Create around one at least a small circle where matters are arranged as one wants them to be.

What I have always wanted for myself is much more primitive. It is probably nothing more than the affection of the people with whom I am in contact, and their good opinion of me.

I was always looking outside myself for strength and confidence but it comes from within. It is there all the time.

How can one know anything at all about people?

Papa continually emphasizes how much remains unexplained. With the other psychoanalytic writers, everything is always so known and fixed.

Children usually do not blame themselves for getting lost.