The more you know yourself, the more patience you have for what you see in others.

You can actively flee, then, and you can actively stay put.

Doubt is the brother of shame.

You've got to learn to accept the law of life, and face the fact that we disintegrate slowly.

Personality, too, is destiny.

Someday, maybe, there will exist a well-informed, well considered and yet fervent public conviction that the most deadly of all possible sins is the mutilation of a child’s spirit; for such mutilation undercuts the life principle of trust, without which every human act, may it feel ever so good and seem ever so right is prone to perversion by destructive forms of conscientiousness.

If life is to be sustained, hope must remain.