Our achievements speak for themselves. What we have to keep track of are our failures, discouragements and doubts.

People who bite the hand that feeds them usually lick the boot that kicks them.

people with a sense of fulfillment think it is a good world and would like to conserve it as it is, while the frustrated favor radical change.

The self-despisers are less intent on their own increase than on the diminution of others. Where self-esteem is unobtainable, envy takes the place of greed.

We used to think that revolutions are the cause of change. Actually it is the other way around: change prepares the ground for revolution.

In an adequate social order, the untalented should be able to acquire a sense of usefulness and of growth without interfering with the development of talent around them

The greatest weariness comes from work not done.