You don't want to lose your old friend - the misery - You have invested too much into false - Hence the fear to be exposed -to be true - to be naked as you are.
Mistakes are always forgivable, if one has the courage to admit them.
Tis very certain the desire of life prolongs it.
Every intelligent individual wants to know what makes him tick, and yet is at once fascinated and frustrated by the fact that oneself is the most difficult of all things to know.
Experience is merely the name men gave to their mistakes.
Achievement brings its own anticlimax.
A single lie destroys a whole reputation of integrity.
Your visions will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.
Your reputation is in the hands of others. That's what the reputation is. You can't control that. The only thing you can control is your character.
Muddy water is best cleared by leaving it alone.
When you undervalue what you do, the world will undervalue who you are
It is not titles that honor men, but men that honor titles.
The greatest minds are capable of the greatest vices as well as of the greatest virtues.
Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers.
A good teacher protects his pupils from his own influence.
Sometimes you will never know the value of a moment until it becomes a memory.
Do not deny the classical approach, simply as a reaction, or you will have created another pattern and trapped yourself there.
I have no desire to make windows into mens souls
Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars.
The absent are never without fault, nor the present without excuse.
For we walk by faith, not by sight