History is just new people making old mistakes.

The impression forces itself upon one that men measure by false standards, that everyone seeks power, success, riches for himself, and admires others who attain them, while undervaluing the truly precious thing in life.

The psychoanalysis of neurotics has taught us to recognize the intimate connection between wetting the bed and the character trait of ambition.

Everywhere I go I find that a poet has been there before me.

What good to us is a long life if it is difficult and barren of joys, and if it is so full of misery that we can only welcome death as a deliverer?

The intention that man should be happy is not in the plan of Creation.

Children are completely egoistic; they feel their needs intensely and strive ruthlessly to satisfy them.