There are only two roads that lead to something like human happiness. They are marked by the words . . . love and achievement. . . . Inorder to be happy oneself it is necessary to make at least one other person happy. . . . The secret of human happiness is not inself-seeking but in self-forgetting.

Women in general want to be loved for what they are and men for what they accomplish.

Work and love; these are the basics. Without them there is neurosis.

Women see through each other, but they rarely look into themselves.

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

We are all in a race for dear life: that is to say, we are fugitives from death.

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