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.

A winner rebukes and forgives; a loser is too timid to rebuke and too petty to forgive.

You may be sure that when a man begins to call himself a realist he is preparing to do something that he is secretly ashamed of doing.

The greatest educational dogma is also its greatest fallacy: the belief that what must be learned can necessarily be taught.

Middle Age is that perplexing time of life when we hear two voices calling us, one saying, 'Why not?' and the other, 'Why bother?'

Our dilemma is that we hate change and love it at the same time; what we really want is for things to remain the same but get better.

Real loneliness consists not in being alone, but in being with the wrong person, in the suffocating darkness of a room in which no deep communication is possible.