It's good to learn from your mistakes. It's better to learn from other people's mistakes.

Learn this from water: loud splashes the brook but the oceans depth are calm.

Even as a solid rock is unshaken by the wind, so are the wise unshaken by praise or blame.

If you hold a cat by the tail you learn things you cannot learn any other way.

Praise and blame, good and bad, even heat and cold, must be equally acceptable to us.

This is the first lesson to learn: be determined not to curse anything outside, not to lay the blame upon anyone outside, but stand up, lay the blame on yourself. You will find that is always true. Get hold of yourself.