If a small thing has the power to make you angry, does that not indicate something about your size?

Being yourself is not remaining what you were, or being satisfied with what you are. It is the point of departure and far from the goal.

Usually, if we hate, it is the shadow of the person that we hate, rather than the substance. We may hate a person because he reminds us of someone we feared and disliked when younger; or because we see in him some gross caricature of what we find repugnant in ourself; or because he symbolizes an attitude that seems to threaten us.

Man's unique agony as a species consists in his perpetual conflict between the desire to stand out and the need to blend in.

Almost no one is foolish enough to imagine that he automatically deserves great success in any field of activity; yet almost everyone believes that he automatically deserves success in marriage.

Ignorance per se is not nearly as dangerous as ignorance of ignorance.

It may be true that the weak will always be driven to the wall; but it is the task of a just society to see that the wall is climbable.