“You will always define events in a manner which will validate your agreement with reality.”
“Your agreement with reality defines your life.”
“You need only claim the events of your life to make yourself yours. When you truly possess all you have been and done, which may take some time, you are fierce with reality.”
“The Sage was asked to define good manners? to which he replied, To bear patiently the rude ones.”
“Intellectuals are not defined according to the jobs they do, but [by] the manner in which they act, the way they see themselves, and the values that they uphold.”
“It is not always possible to come to an agreement before one goes to sleep but it is possible to go to sleep in a loving and peaceable manner knowing that the problem can be worked out in love at a later time.”