If our early lessons of acceptance were as successful as our early lessons of anger, how much happier we would all be.

Many people weigh the guilt they will feel against the pleasure of the forbidden action they want to take.

Guilt is anger directed at ourselves--at what we did or did not do.

Resentment is anger directed at others--at what they did or did not do.

To avoid situations in which you might make mistakes may be the biggest mistake of all.

Mistakes, obviously, show us what needs improving. Without mistakes, how would we know what we had to work on?

Many would be cowards if they had courage enough.

Fanaticism consists in redoubling your effort when you have forgotten your aim.

Some have been thought brave because they were afraid to run away.

The truth that many people never understand, until it is too late, is that the more you try to avoid suffering the more you suffer because smaller and more insignificant things begin to torture you in proportion to your fear of being hurt.