"I hate a conscience. It's always making you feel low down and disreputable. I don't believe I will say anything to my children about one, and let them have some peace."

“I know, to banish anger altogether from one's breast is a difficult task. It cannot be achieved through pure personal effort. It can be done only by God's grace.”

“Worry is most often a prideful way of thinking you have more control over life and its circumstances than you actually do”

Source : FaceBook post by June Hunt from Sep 29, 2014

“You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them.”

“Civilizations die from philosophical calm, irony, and a sense of fair play quite as surely as they die of debauchery.”

“As knowledge increases, wonder deepens.”

“People who get through life dependent on other people's possessions are always the first to lecture you on how little possessions count.”

“True compassion sees each person as a brother or sister and acts accordingly.”

“None of my clients are criminals, but to a much lighter degree that's what goes on. I hear the story, and I hear it with the level of detail that breeds empathy.”

Source : "'Getting to Take on That Life Temporarily'". Interview with Kathryn Borel, Jr., logger.believermag.com. July 21, 2015.