To be taken seriously you need the ability to make fun of yourself.

To be taken seriously you need the ability to make fun of yourself.

Two things may happen when we meet someone: either we become friends or we try to convince that person to read more

Two things may happen when we meet someone: either we become friends or we try to convince that person to accept our beliefs. The same thing happens when a hot coal meets another piece of coal: it either shares its fire with it or is overwhelmed by the other`s size and is extinguished.

Since nothing we intend is ever faultless, and nothing we attempt ever without error, and nothing we achieve without some read more

Since nothing we intend is ever faultless, and nothing we attempt ever without error, and nothing we achieve without some measure of finitude and fallibility we call humanness, we are saved by forgiveness.

Her great merit is finding out mine -- there is nothing so amiable as discernment.

Her great merit is finding out mine -- there is nothing so amiable as discernment.

I love fools experiments. I am always making them.

I love fools experiments. I am always making them.

To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it.

To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it.

It's all happening too fast. I've got to put the brakes on or I'll smack into something.

It's all happening too fast. I've got to put the brakes on or I'll smack into something.

In the last analysis sound judgment will prevail.

In the last analysis sound judgment will prevail.

The consuming desire of most human beings is deliberately to plant their whole life in the hands of some other read more

The consuming desire of most human beings is deliberately to plant their whole life in the hands of some other person. I would describe this method of searching for happiness as immature. Development of character consists solely in moving toward self-sufficiency.