“If you follow the classical pattern, you are understanding the routine, the tradition, the shadow -- you are not understanding yourself.”

“If you don't understand yourself you don't understand anybody else.”

“Do not deny the classical approach, simply as a reaction, or you will have created another pattern and trapped yourself there.”

“… you realize that you don't understand yourself any better than you understand anyone else.”

“Where questions of style and exposition are concerned I try to follow a simple maxim: if you can’t say it clearly you don’t understand it yourself.”

“To understand others, you must first learn to understand yourself.”

“Until you understand a writer's ignorance, presume yourself ignorant of his understanding.”

“There is a saying that to understand is to forgive, but that is an error, so Papa used to say. You must forgive in order to understand. Until you forgive, you defend yourself against the possibility of understanding.”

“Knowing yourself lets you understand others.”

“Be yourself, you might not understand it, others might not understand it, but someday, your purpose will be enough.”