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

In order to be happy oneself it is necessary to make at least one other person happy ... The secret of human happiness is not in self-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.

Work and love-these are the basics. Without them there is neurosis.

Romance fails us and so do friendships, but the relationship of parent and child, less noisy than all others, remains indelible and indestructible, the strongest relationship on earth.