A special ability means a heavy expenditure of energy in a particular direction, with a consequent drain from some other side of life.

Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.

Great talents are the most lovely and often the most dangerous fruits on the tree of humanity. They hang upon the most slender twigs that are easily snapped off.

I could not say I believe. I know! I have had the experience of being gripped by something that is stronger than myself, something that people call God.

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I have always been impressed by the fact that there are a surprising number of individuals who never use their minds if they can avoid it, and an equal number who do use their minds, but in an amazingly stupid way.

If one does not understand a person, one tends to regard him as a fool.

Knowledge rests not upon truth alone, but upon error also.

Man needs difficulties; they are necessary for health.

Mistakes are, after all, the foundations of truth, and if a man does not know what a thing is, it is at least an increase in knowledge if he knows what it is not.

Neurosis is always a substitute for legitimate suffering.