“The price one pays for having a kind man at one’s elbow.”
“One has to kill a few of one’s natural selves to let the rest grow — a very painful slaughter of innocents.”
“To know one’s own state is not a simple matter. One cannot look directly at one’s own face with one’s own eyes, for example. One has no choice but to look at one’s reflection in the mirror. Through experience, we come to believe that the image is correct, but that is all.”
“To desire to change one’s past means there is a desire to change oneself. To desire to change oneself, one must learn to change.”
“To regret one’s own experiences is to arrest one’s own development. To deny one’s own experiences is to put a lie into the lips of one’s own life. It is no less than a denial of the soul.”