The past is always dogging our heals, striving ceaselessly to banish the present.

Habit: the shackles of the free

The ear tends to be lazy, craves the familiar and is shocked by the unexpected; the eye, on the other hand, tends to be impatient, craves the novel and is bored by repetition.

Politeness is to human nature what warmth is to wax.

The aim of education is not the specialist but the man of vision who can humanise our life by integrating emotional demands with our new knowledge

Talkingmuch about oneself may be a way of hiding oneself.

The exercise of power is determined by thousands ofinteractions between the world of the powerful and that of the powerless, allthe more so because these worlds are never divided by a sharp line: everyonehas a small part of himself in both.

Fortunatelypsychoanalysis is not the only way to resolve inner conflicts. Life itselfstill remains a very effective therapist.

Don'tput all your eggs in one basket.

Wecannot always control our thoughts, but we can control our words, andrepetition impresses the subconscious, and we are then master of thesituation.

As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.

Any child who has parents who are interested in him and has a house full of books isin't poor.