Pessimism, when you get used to it, is just as agreeable as optimism.

Parents these days scarcely bring up children; they finance them.

Amarriage without conflicts is almost as inconceivable as a nation without crises.

Talkingmuch about oneself may be a way of hiding oneself.

Nothingso completely baffles one who is full of trick and duplicity himself, thanstraightforward and simple integrity in another.

Livingwith integrity means: not settling for less than what you know you deserve inyour relationships. Asking for what you want and need from others. Speakingyour truth, even though it might create conflict or tension. Behaving in waysthat are in harmony

Insteadof suppressing conflicts, specific channels could be created to make thisconflict explicit, and specific methods could be set up by which the conflictis resolved.

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

The surest way to remain poor is to be an honest man.

Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself, but talent instantly recognises genius.

Contradictionshould awaken Attention, not Passion.

Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone.