No one knows better how nightmarishly frustrating bureaucracy can be than those trapped inside it. A clash of doctrines is not a disaster it is an opportunity. We can't do for another without at the same time doing for ourselves. Every mother contains her daughter in herself and every daughter her mother, and every woman extends backward into her mother and forward into her daughter. The older I grow, the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.
Ideals are the world's masters.
Every man has, at times, in his mind the ideal of what he should be, but is not. In all men that seek to improve, it is better than the actual. No one is satisfied with himself that he never wishes to be wiser, better, and more holy. Show me your differences so that may be I can learn from them. If it seems that I see farther than other men, it is because I stand on the shoulders of giants.