Knowledge rests not upon truth alone, but upon error also.

Knowing your own darkness is the best method for dealing with the darknesses of other people.

If there is anything that we wish to change in the child, we should first examine it and see whether it is not something that could better be changed in ourselves.

We cannot change anything until we accept it. Condemnation does not liberate, it oppresses.

Shrinking away from death is something unhealthy and abnormal which robs the second half of life of its purpose.

Who looks outside, dreams who looks inside, awakes.

Your vision will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams who looks inside, awakes.

We deem those happy who from the experience of life have learnt to bear its ills without being overcome by them.

Follow that will and that way which experience confirms to be your own.

Great talents are the most lovely and often the most dangerous fruits on the tree of humanity. They hang upon the most slender twigs that are easily snapped off.