Look not to the faults of others, nor to their omissions and commissions. But rather look to your own acts, to what you have done and left undone.

For usually when people are self-centered, they are self-centered because they are seeking attention, they want to be admired and this is the way they set out to do it. But in the process, because of their self-centeredness, they are not admired; they are mawkish and people don't want to be bothered with them. And so the very thing they seek, they never get. And they end up frustrated and unhappy and disillusioned.

I will not look at another's bowl intent on finding fault: a training to be observed.

Happiness comes when your work and words are of benefit to others.

Every man should ask himself each day whether he is not too readily accepting negative solutions.

One of the things that made me long to be back in prison was that I had so little opportunity for reading, thinking and quiet reflection after my release. I intend, amongst other things, to give myself much more opportunity for such reading and reflection.