Punishment damages goodwill and self-esteem, and shifts our attention from the intrinsic value of an action to external consequences.

Solve 90% of the problem as simply as you can, and then remove the other 10% from the problem requirements.

If you want to enjoy intimacy, you must learn to enjoy pain.

We criticize people for not giving us what we ourselves are afraid to ask for.

No house is big enough for the rule of two women.

...If there's one thing I'm well versed in it's my own good qualities.

All hate is the result of people refusing to take responsibility for their own lives.

But clearly life took people and shook them around until finally they were unrecognizable even to those who had once known them well. Still, there was power in once having known someone.

The job of rearing a child consists of making conscious activities unconscious.

You can't lead anyone else further than you have gone yourself.

Of all the things that oppress me, this sense of the evil working of nature herself -my disgust at her barbarity -clumsiness -darkness -bitter mockery of herself -is the most desolating.

The law is not a 'light' for you or any man to see by; the law is not an instrument of any kind. The law is a causeway upon which so long as he keeps to it a citizen may walk safely.

Being president is like running a cemetery: you've got a lot of people under you and nobody's listening.

People who do not know how to laugh are always pompous and self-conceited.