Romance fails us and so do friendships, but the relationship of parent and child, less noisy than all the others, remains indelible and indestructible, the strongest relationship on earth

Great innovators and original thinkers and artists attract the wrath of mediocrities as lightning rods draw the flashes.

To express unafraid and unashamed what one really thinks and feels is one of the great consolations of life.

The small share of happiness attainable by man exists only insofar as he is able to cease to think of himself.

In order to be happy oneself it is necessary to make at least one other person happy.

The repressed memory is like a noisy intruder being thrown out of the concert hall. You can throw him out, but he will bang on the door and continue to disturb the concert. The analyst opens the door and says, If you promise to behave yourself, you can come back in.

Even the wisest men make fools of themselves about women, and even the most foolish women are wise about men