Instructing in cures, therapists always recommend that "each case be individualized." If this advice is followed, one becomes persuaded that those means recommended in textbooks as the best, means perfectly appropriate for the template case, turn out to be completely unsuitable in individual cases.

Every person lives his real, most interesting life under the cover of secrecy.

Only during hard times do people come to understand how difficult it is to be master of their feelings and thoughts.

Man is what he believes.

But at the same time, in reality, what a difference there is between the world today, and what it used to be! And with the passage of more time, some two or three hundred years, say, people will look back at our own times with horror, or with sneering laughter, because all of our present day life will appear so clumsy, and burdensome, extraordinarily inept and strange. Yes, certainly, what a life it will be then, what a life!

What must human beings be, to destroy what they can never create?

There are plenty of good people, but only a very, very few are precise and disciplined.