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

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

It may be possible through detachment, to gain knowledge that is 'useful;' but only through participation is it possible to gain the knowledge that is helpful.

Everybody has a great deal of experience in living. But no one lives in anything like the highest style of the art; and it is very disconcerting to notice how badly one lives in the sense of the extent to which fatigue and other discomforts are connected with one's important dealings with other people.

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

It is easier to act yourself into a new way of feeling than to feel yourself into a new way of acting.

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.