Start with what is right rather than what is acceptable.

By imposing too great a responsibility, or rather, all responsibility, on yourself, you crush yourself.

I can prove at any time that my education tried to make another person out of me than the one I became. It is for the harm, therefore, that my educators could have done me in accordance with their intentions that I reproach them; I demand from their hands the person I now am, and since they cannot give him to me, I make of my reproach and laughter a drumbeat sounding in the world beyond.

To every instant there is a correspondence in something outside time. This world here and now cannot be followed by a Beyond, for the Beyond is eternal, hence it cannot be in temporal contact with this world here and now.

They say ignorance is bliss.... they're wrong

Idleness is the beginning of all vice, the crown of all virtues.

What's happened to me,' he thought. It was no dream.