He attacked everything in life with a mix of extrordinary genius and naive incompetence, and it was often difficult to tell which was which.
It is easier to exclude harmful passions than to rule them, and to deny them admittance than to control them after they have been admitted.
The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it.
The average person thinks he isn't.
Every day you may make progress. Every step may be fruitful. Yet there will stretch out before you an ever-lengthening, ever-ascending, ever-improving path. You know you will never get to the end of the journey. But this, so far from discouraging, only adds to the joy and glory of the climb.
It really doesn't matter if the person who hurt you deserves to be forgiven. Forgiveness is a gift you give yourself. You have things to do and you want to move on.
The truth is always a compound of two half- truths, and you never reach it, because there is always something more to say.