The chemistry of dissatisfaction is as the chemistry of some marvelously potent tar. In it are the building stones of explosives, stimulants, poisons, opiates, perfumes and stenches.

Where everything is possible miracles become commonplaces, but the familiar ceases to be self-evident.

The ability to get along without an exceptional leader is the mark of social vigor.

It is always safe to assume that people are more subtle and less sensitive than they seem.

We have to adjust ourselves, and every radical adjustment is a crisis in self-esteem: we undergo a test, we have to prove ourselves.

The search for happiness is one of the chief sources of unhappiness.

Every successful person has had failures but repeated failure is no guarantee of eventual success