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.

No person loving or admiring himself is alone.

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

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.

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

The lover is a monotheist who knows that other people worship different gods but cannot himself imagine that there could be other gods.

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