To accuse others for one's own misfortunes is a sign of want of education. To accuse oneself shows that one's education has begun. To accuse neither oneself nor others shows that one's education is complete.

In trying to please other people, we find ourselves misdirected toward what lies outside our sphere of influence. In doing so, we lose our hold on our lifes purpose.

The universe is but one great city, full of beloved ones, divine and human, by nature endeared to each other.

It is the part of an uneducated person to blame others where he himself fares ill; to blame himself is the part of one whose education has begun; to blame neither another nor his own self is the part of one whose education is already complete.

By accepting life's limits and inevitabilities and working with them rather than fighting them, we become free.

Some of their faults men readily admit, but others not so readily.

No man is able to make progress when he is wavering between opposite things.