"All who know their own minds know..." - Quote by Francois De La Rochefoucauld

“The exceeding delight we take in talking about ourselves should give us cause to fear that we are giving but very little pleasureto our listeners.”

“Jealousy is nothing more than a fear of abandonment”

“Men sometimes think they hate flattery, but they hate only the manner of flattering.”

“People who read me seem to be divided into four groups: twenty-five percent like me for the right reasons; twenty-five percent like me for the wrong reasons; twenty-five percent hate me for the wrong reasons; twenty-five percent hate me for the right reasons. It's that last twenty-five percent that worries me.”

“A wise man watches his faults more closely than his virtues; fools reverse the order.”

“Once you develop confidence in your own ability, you'll be able to make a real contribution to creating a better world. Self-confidence is very important. Not in the sense of blind pride, but as a realistic awareness of what you can do. As human beings we can transform ourselves by our good qualities and reducing our faults. Our intelligence enables us to judge what is good from what is harmful.”

“We are boxed in by the boundary conditions of our thinking”

“It stands to the everlasting credit of science that by acting on the human mind it has overcome man's insecurity before himself and before nature.”

“The heart has arguments with which the logic of mind is not aquainted.”