Many ordinary illnesses are nothing but the expression of a serious dissatisfaction with life.

In order to really understand, we need to listen, not reply. We need to listen long and attentively. In order to help anybody to open his heart we have to give him time, asking only a few questions, as carefully as possible in order to help him better explain his experience.

The more refined and subtle our minds, the more vulnerable they are.

At the heart of personality is the need to feel a sense of being lovable without having to qualify for that acceptance.

In order to make a success of old age, one must begin it earlier, and not try to postpone it as long as possible. In the middle of life we must stop to think, to organize our existence with an eye to a still distant future, instead of allowing ourselves to be entirely sucked into the professional and social whirl. It is then that it is important to give place little by little to less external activities, less technical and more cultural, which will survive the moment of retirement.

Where there is no longer any opportunity for doubt, there is no longer any opportunity for faith either.

Sooner or later, those who win are those who think they can.