Once we assuage our conscience by calling something a "necessary evil", it begins to look more and more necessary and less and less evil.

Every rule in the book can be broken, except one - be who you are, and become all you were meant to be.

Marriages we regard as the happiest are those in which each of the partners believes he or she got the best of it.

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.

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.

Parents - and teachers too - are woefully short-sighted when they try to protect the child from his mistakes, when they make the "right answer" more important than the quest for knowledge and good judgment. For what is not learned within one's self cannot be learned from another.

More trouble is caused in this world by indiscreet answers than by indiscreet questions.