“One shouldn't learn more than what one absolutely needs against life.”

“The first lesson to learn is to resign oneself to the little difficulties in life, not to hit out at everything one comes up against. If one were able to manage this one would not need to cultivate great power; even one's presence would be healing.”

“I felt myself in a solitude so frightful that I contemplated suicide. What held me back was the idea that no one, absolutely no one, would be moved by my death, that I would be even more alone in death than in life.”

“Life shouldn't be about the either/or. We're capable of more than that, you know?”

“No one lives long enough to learn everything they need to learn starting from
scratch. To be successful, we absolutely, positively have to find people who
have already paid the price to learn the things that we need to learn to achieve
our goals.”

“I've learned that you shouldn't go through life with a catcher's mitt on both hands; you need to be able to throw some things back.”

“A learned fool is more foolish than an ignorant one.”

“The law is only one of several imperfect and more or less external ways of defending what is better in life against what is worse.”

“I do feel one learns more from one's failures than from one's successes”

“One learns not to need by needing.”