Never esteem anything as of advantage to you that will make you break your word or lose your self-respect.
I was not a child prodigy, because a child prodigy is a child who knows as much when it is a child as it does when it grows up.
As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.
O Lord, help me to be pure, but not yet.
I said to myself, I have things in my head that are not like what anyone has taught me - shapes and ideas so near to me - so natural to my way of being and thinking that it hasn't occurred to me to put them down. I decided to start anew, to strip away what I had been taught.
Beginning today, treat everyone you meet as if they were going to be dead by midnight. Extend them all the care, kindness and understanding you can muster. Your life will never be the same again.
Let us so live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.