Illusion is the first of all pleasures.

You will never have a greater or lesser dominion than that over yourself. . . . the height of a man's success is gauged by his self-mastery; the depth of his failure by his self-abandonment. . . . And this law is the expression of eternal justice. He who cannot establish dominion over himself will have no dominion over others.

We are what we pretend to be, but we better be very careful what we pretend.

it is the case not that there aren't any right answers but that, given human fallibility we need to be careful in assuming that we have found them.