Self-esteem and self-contempt have specific odors; they can be smelled.

The capacity for getting along with our neighbor depends to a large extent on the capacity for getting along with ourselves. The self-respecting individual will try to be as tolerant of his neighbor's shortcomings as he is of his own.

It is thus with most of us; we are what other people say we are. We know ourselves chiefly by hearsay.

Self-contempt, however vague, sharpens our eyes for the imperfections of others. We usually strive to reveal in others the blemishes we hide in ourselves.

There is always a chance that he who sets himself up as his brother's keeper will end up by being his jail-keeper.

The Paleolithic hunters who painted the unsurpassed animal murals on the ceiling of the cave at Altamira had only rudimentary tools. Art is older than production for use, and play older than work. Man was shaped less by what he had to do than by what he did in playful moments. It is the child in man that is the source of his uniqueness and creativeness, and the playground is the optimal milieu for the unfolding of his capacities.

When cowardice is made respectable, its followers are without number both from among the weak and the strong; it easily becomes a fashion.