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

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

Things are not as we would like them to be. There is only one way to deal with it, namely to try and be all right oneself.

In our dreams we can have our eggs cooked exactly how we want them, but we can't eat them.

Sometimes the most beautiful thing is precisely the one that comes unexpectedly and unearned, hence something given truly as a present.

How one can live without being able to judge oneself, criticize what one has accomplished, and still enjoy what one does, is unimaginable to me.

Papa always makes it clear that he would like to know me as much more rational and lucid than the girls and women he gets to know during his analytic hours.