Many people resented my impatience and honesty, but I never cared about acceptance as much as I cared about respect.

The art of acceptance is the art of making someone who has just done you a small favor wish that he might have done you a greater one.

The acceptance of death gives you more of a stake in life, in living life happily, as it should be lived. Living for the moment.

Now is the accepted time.

Acceptance doesn’t mean resignation; it means understanding that something is what it is and that there’s got to be a way through it.

That which has always been accepted by everyone, everywhere, is almost certain to be false.

We can secure other people’s approval, if we do right and try hard; but our own is worth a hundred of it, and no way has been found out of securing that.

For we that live please must please to live.

God, give us the grace to accept with serenity the things that cannot be changed, courage to change the things which should be changed, and the wisdom to distinguish the one from the other.

Lie to a liar, for lies are his coin; steal from a thief, for that is easy; lay a trap for a trickster and catch him at first attempt, but beware of an honest man.

If you want to be successful, you must respect one rule: never lie to yourself.

Persons attempting to find a motive in this narrative will be prosecuted; persons attempting to find a moral in it will be banished; persons attempting to find a plot in it will be shot.

When whole races and peoples conspire to propagate gigantic mute lies in the interest of tyrannies and shams, why should we care anything about the trifling lies told by individuals?

And even a liar can be scared into telling the truth, same as honest man can be tortured into telling a life.

When you want to help people, you tell them the truth. When you want to help yourself, you tell them what they want to hear.

With time and patience the mulberry leaf becomes a silk gown.

Be patient where you sit in the dark. The dawn is coming.

A patient man will eat ripe fruit.

Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish.

Real excellence does not come cheaply. A certain price must be paid in terms of practice, patience, and persistence—natural ability notwithstanding.

Patience is not simply the ability to wait – it’s how we behave while we’re waiting.

Keep in mind that the true measure of an individual is how he treats a person who can do him absolutely no good.

You should respect each other and refrain from disputes; you should not, like water and oil, repel each other, but should, like milk and water, mingle together.

Unthinking respect for authority is the greatest enemy of truth.

It is clear that the individual who persecutes a man, his brother, because he is not of the same opinion, is a monster.