“I know I have my faults and shortcomings, but the blow them all out of proportion!”
“When I pass, speak freely of my shortcomings and my flaws. Learn from them, for I'll have no ego to injure.”
“A friend is a person who likes you for what you are, in spite of all your faults, all your shortcomings.”
“Human greatness does not lie in wealth or power, but in character and goodness. People are just people, and all people have faults and shortcomings, but all of us are born with a basic goodness.”
“My fault, my failure, is not in the passions I have, but in my lack of control of them.”
“I will go out again this very night with my rockets and fuses. I will blow them straight out of their comfortable beds. Blow the rooftops off their houses. Blow the black, wretched night to bits. I will not stop. For mad I may be, but I will never be convenient.”