If you are distressed by anything external, the pain isnot due to the thing itself but to your own estimate of it; and this you havethe power to revoke at any moment.

Patriots always talk of dying for their country, and never of killing for their country

Silence, along with modesty, is a great aid to conversation.

To know the pains of power, we must go to those who haveit; to know its pleasures, we must go to those who are seeking it.

Ignorance is a form of environmental pollution.

To be spiritual is not to reject reason but to go beyond it.

Thetorment of human frustration, whatever its immediate cause,is the knowledge that the self is in prison, its vital force and ‘mangledmind’ leaking away in lonely, wasteful self-conflict.

As long as there is life there is danger.

The most important things are the hardest to say, because words diminish them.

Theterm up has no meaning apart from the word down. The term fasthas no meaning apart from the term slow. In addition, such termshave no meaning even when used together, except when confined to a veryparticular situation... most of our language about the

Thepast is malleable and flexible, changing as our recollection interprets andre-explains what has happened.

There ward for always listening when you'd rather be talking is wisdom.