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

History repeats itself, but in such cunning disguise that we never detect the resemblance until the damage is done.

Just about the only interruption we don't object to is applause.

Many people feel "guilty" about things they shouldn't feel guilty about, in order to shut out feelings of guilt about things they should feel guilty about.

Somebody who never got over the embarrassing fact that he was born in bed with a lady.

What is much harder to handle is the sense that you have to live up to the mark someone else has set for you. The grades become too important, the competition too frantic, the fear of disappointing those who believe in you turns into an overwhelming nightmare.

It is not only useless, it is harmful, to believe in oneself until one truly knows oneself. And to know oneself means to accept our moments of insanity, of eccentricity, of childishness and blindness.