"We cannot change anything until we accept it. Condemnation does not liberate, it oppresses."

"Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word happy would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness. It is far better to take things as they come along, with patien…"

"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."

"The man who promises everything, promises nothing."

"The first half of life is devoted to forming a healthy ego, the second half is going inward and letting go of it."