Every individual acts and suffers in accordance with his peculiar teleology, which has all the inevitability of fate, so long as he does not understand it.

Overcoming difficulties leads to courage, self-respect, and knowing yourself.

Men of genius are admired, men of wealth are envied, men of power are feared; but only men of character are trusted.

You can be healed of depression if every day you begin the first thing in the morning to consider how you will bring a real joy to someone else.

It is very obvious that we are not influenced by "facts" but by our interpretation of the facts.

Meanings are not determined by situations, but we determine ourselves by the meanings we give to situations.

Trust only movement. Life happens at the level of events, not of words. Trust movement.

Life is just the same as learning to swim. Do not be afraid of making mistakes, for there is no other way of learning how to live!

To see with the eyes of another, to hear with the ears of another, to feel with the heart of another. For the time being, this seems to me an admissible definition of what we call social feeling.

A simple rule in dealing with those who are hard to get along with is to remember that this person is striving to assert his superiority; and you must deal with him from that point of view.

What is courage? Courage is the willingness to risk failure...There is only one danger I find in life, and that, indeed, is a real one. You may take too many precautions.

Earthly things will pass away. They will pass away and what will be left is my Savior.

My experience of malaria was just taking anti-malarials, which give you strange dreams, because I don't want to get malaria.

Life becomes harder for us when we live for others, but it also becomes richer and happier.

What the proletariat needs is a bath of blood.

Style is what's there when you look at someone's writing and you know that they wrote it and nobody else did.

... in the movies Paris is designed as a backdrop for only three things--love, fashion shows, and revolution.

Being a failure at living your own life as best as you can is better than being a success living the life somebody else says you should live.

Patience has nothing to do with suppression. In fact, it has everything to do with a gentle, honest relationship with yourself.

Curiosity is the starting point for great science.

The savings bank of human existence is the weekly Sabbath.