We live in a world of things, and our only connection with them is that we know how to manipulate or to consume them.

The average American never loses his sleep about affairs which relate to his society and to our whole country.

Love of others and love of ourselves are not alternatives. On the contrary, an attitude of love towards themselves will be found in all those who are capable of loving others.

The essential difference between the unhappy, neurotic type person and him of great joy is the difference between get and give.

The most important influence on a child is the character of its parents, rather than this or that single event.

If it is a virtue to love my neighbor as a human being, it must be a virtue - and not a vice - to love myself, since I am a human being too.

The fact that millions of people share the same vices does not make these vices virtues, the fact that they share so many errors does not make the errors to be truths, and the fact that millions of people share the same form of mental pathology does not make these people sane.