The Soviet Union was a civilization of fear, where people lived in constant dread of the knock on the door at night.
The world is all that is the case.
"Every setback is a setup for a comeback."
The more one judges, the less one loves.
The only way of discovering the limits of the possible is to venture a little way past them into the impossible.
The consequences of this problem make themselves felt in bookshops. When you go to a large bookshop and look at the self-help sections, as I sometimes do -- if you analyze self-help book sproduced in the world today, there are basically two kinds. The first kind tells you, "You can do it! You can make it! Anything's possible!" The other kind tells you how to cope with what we politely call "low self-esteem," or impolitely call, "feeling very bad about yourself."