Self-knowledge is the great power by which we comprehend and control our lives

Do not be impatient with your seemingly slow progress. Do not try to run faster than you presently can. If you are studying, reflecting and trying, you are making progress whether you are aware of it or not. A traveler walking the road in the darkness of night is still going forward. Someday, some way, everything will break open, like the natural unfolding of a rosebud.

A false path must be tensely and angrily defended by those it has deceived.

All forms of self-defeating behavior are unseen and unconscious, which is why their existence is denied.

You cannot stop destructive actions by others, but you can stop your own destructive reactions to them

The only way to do something truly important every day is to seek to understand yourself every day.

A desperation to escape a problem is the wrong way. A passion to understand it is the right way