The summit of happiness is reached when a person is ready to be what he is.

The merit belongs to begineer; should his successor do even more better.

No doctor is a good doctor who has never been ill himself.

One must be fond of people and trust them if one is not tomake a mess of life.

Comedy is an escape, not from the truth but from despair; a narrow escape into faith.

If pain could have cured us, we should have long ago been saved.

People whoare too concerned with how well they are doing will be less successful andfeel less competent than those who focus on the task itself... Somepsychologists call it a conflict between egoorientation, or between extrinsicand intrinsic motivation...

It is in our idleness, in our dreams, that submerged truth sometimes comes to top.

Every man has enough power left to carry out that of whichhe is convinced.

I know you believe you understand what you think I said, but I'm not sure yourealize that what you heard isn't what I meant.

When aman says that he approves something in principle, it means he hasn't theslightest intention of putting it in practice.

History is the witness of the times, the light of truth.