“If we had no faults of our own, we would not take so much pleasure in noticing those of others.”

“Had we not faults of our own, we should take less pleasure in complaining of others.”

“I am tired of people saying that poor character is the only reason people do wrong things. Actually, circumstances cause people to act a certain way. It's from those circumstances that a person's attitude is affected followed by weakening of character. Not the reverse. If we had no faults of our own, we should not take so much pleasure in noticing those in others and judging their lives as either black or white, good or bad. We all live our lives in shades of gray.”

“We are so busy constantly checking our own temperatures, we fail to notice the burning fevers of others.”

“Paco, we are all so much more than our faults, aren’t we?”

“We reap what we sow. We are the makers of our own fate.The wind is blowing; those vessels whose sails are unfurledcatch it, and go forward on their way, but those which havetheir sails furled do not catch the wind. Is that the fault ofthe wind?....... We make our own destiny.”