“In law it is a good policy never to plead what you need not, lest you oblige yourself to prove what you cannot.”

“They all have always loved you, Will Herondale, for you cannot hide what is good about yourself, however hard you try.”

“Reality can neither be proved nor disproved. Within the mind you cannot, beyond the mind you need not. In the real, the question ‘what is real?’ does not arise. (…)”

“Regard yourself all the more as a sinner because you cannot feel yourself to be what you are.”

“Do you know what a good life is? A good life is a life in which you never have to think about yourself again. You know why? Because you can't think about yourself without producing fear.”

“When you observe yourself you must not condemn or approve what you see. If you tell a lie there is no need to judge your-self. The judge cannot be the judged, and even to accept is to judge.”

“Regardless of what you may think about yourself or what you have been told about yourself or what you may have been taught to believe about yourself… THERE IS NOTHING WRONG WITH YOU. THERE NEVER WAS.”

“You cannot enjoy others until you
enjoy yourself because you cannot give to others what you do not have.”

“If you cannot reconcile yourself to the law, remain in the cradle.”

“If you are never alone, you cannot know yourself.”