To accept reality is only to encourage it.
It's not that perfection cannot be achieved. It's that it's so hard to stop there.
In the end you don't so much find yourself as you find someone who knows who you are.
The toughest test of good judgment is to know when to withhold your better judgment.
A child seldom needs a good talking to as a good listening to.
See yourself always as cause, and perhaps a better world will be found among your effects.