There is no possibility of remembering what has been found and understood, and later repeating it to oneself. It disappears as a dream disappears. Perhaps it is all nothing but a dream.

I mean that you always know what results will come from one or another of your actions; but in a strange way you want to do one thing and get the result that could only come from another

Ideas by themselves cannot produce change of being; your effort must go in the right direction, and one must correspond to the other.

We often think we express negative emotions, not because we cannot help it, but because we should express them.

It is by overcoming obstacles that man develops those qualities he needs.

There is something in us that keeps us where we find ourselves. I think this is the most awful thing of all.

The strangest and most fantastic fact about negative emotions is that people actually worship them.