If you have to maintain self-esteem by pulling down the standing of others, you are extraordinarily unfortunate.

Your emotional life is not written in cement during childhood. You write each chapter as you go along.

We are all much more simply human than otherwise, be we happy and successful, contented and detached, miserable and mentally disordered, or whatever.

I do not believe that I have had an interview with anybody in twenty-five years in which the person to whom I was talking was not annoyed during the early part of the interview by my asking stupid questions.

All of us are much more human than otherwise

If you have to maintain self-esteem by pulling down the standing of others, you are extraordinarily unfortunate.

As you love yourself, so shall you love others. Strange but true, with no exceptions.