For neither our greatest fears nor our greatest hopes are beyond the limits of our strength--we are able in the end both to dominate the first and to achieve the second.

People don't know when they are happy. They're never so unhappy as they think they are.

...the nose is generally the organ in which stupidity is most readily displayed.

But sometimes the future is latent in us without our knowing it, and our supposedly lying words foreshadow an imminent reality.

People who are not in love fail to understand how an intelligent man can suffer because of a very ordinary woman. This is like being surprised that anyone should be stricken with cholera because of a creature so insignificant as the common bacillus.

All the great things we know have come to us from neurotics. It is they who have founded religions and created great works of art.

When we have passed a certain age, the soul of the child we were and the souls of the dead from whom we have sprung come to lavish on us their riches and their spells.