You are not responsible for anyone who stubbornly chooses to ruin his own life. - Vernon Howard

The delusion of having wisdom creates the dangerous delusion of having power, leading to disaster.

We burden ourselves with useless ideas which we carelessly take as facts. Instead of letting reality come as a new surprise, we insist that it conform to our habitual concepts, and thus, we spoil everything.

Everyone has imaginary ideas of himself as being this or that sort of person. And you can be sure that the images are highly complimentary! But since they are purely imaginary, they are highly sensitive to assault by reality.