I always pass on good advice. It is the only thing to do with it. It is never of any use to oneself.

Being entirely honest with oneself is a good exercise.

When you are not treated seriously you develop comically. Its sense of oneself is so fractured and fragile that it's like the picked-on kid who has to become funny.

As we know forgiveness of oneself is the hardest of all the forgivenesses.

To understand is to forgive even oneself.

Not to like ice cream is to show oneself uninterested in food.

The questions which one asks oneself begin at least to illuminate the world and become one's key to the experience of others.

To accuse others for one's own misfortunes is a sign of want of education. To accuse oneself shows that one's education has begun. To accuse neither oneself nor others shows that one's education is complete.

Obviously one must hold oneself responsible for the evil impulses of one's dreams. In what other way can one deal with them? Unless the content of the dream rightly understood is inspired by alien spirits it is part of my own being.

Everything one does in life even love occurs in an express train racing toward death. To smoke opium is to get out of the train while it is still moving. It is to concern oneself with something other than life or death.