“Please, not again what you studied, how long you spent at it, how many books you wrote, what people thought of you - but: what did you learn?”

“Have you noticed how many people who walk in the shade curse the Sun?”

“If you give what can be takes, you are not really giving.Take what you are given, not what you want to be given.Take what is given:Give what cannot be taken.”

“If, from time to time, you give up expectation, you will be able to perceive what it is you are getting.”

“Teach honesty by all means - you do know what it is, don't you?”

“History is not usually what has happened. History is what some people have thought to be significant.”

“Learn to be as analytical about things of which you are credulous as you are of those which you criticise.”