To be a teacher does not mean simply to affirm that such a thing is so, or to deliver a lecture, etc. No, to be a teacher in the right sense is to be a learner. Instruction begins when you, the teacher, learn from the learner, put yourself in his place so that you may understand what he understands and the way he understands it.

Above all do not forget your duty to love yourself.

Seek first God's Kingdom, that is, become like the lilies and the birds, become perfectly silent - then shall the rest be added unto you.

It doesn't occur to me at this moment to say more; another time, perhaps tomorrow, I may have more to say, but 'always the same thing and about the same,' for …