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.

The supply of interpretations, like that of advice, greatly exceeds the need for them.

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

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

There is a persistent funny form of suspicion in most of us that we can solve our own problems and be the masters of our own ships of life, but the fact of the matter is that by ourselves we can only be consumed by our problems and suffer the shipwreck.

When the satisfaction or the security of another person becomes as significant to one as one's own satisfaction or security, then the state of love exists. Under no other circumstances is a state of love present, regardless of the popular usage of the term.