Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet.

It's good to shut up sometimes.

Ignoring is not the same thing as being tolerant

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.

In all superstitions wise men follow fools.

Effectivecommunication is 20 percent what you know and 80 percent how you feel aboutwhat you know.

The onesure way to conciliate a tiger is to allow oneself to be devoured.

In history, characters and events occur twice, first as tragedy then as farce.

Nothing lays itself open to the change of exaggeration more than the language of naked truth.

By tryingoften, the monkey learns to jump from the tree.

In anyfree society, the conflict between social conformity and individual libertyis permanent, unresolvable, and necessary.

... That may appear as the truth to one personwill often appear as untruth to another person. But that need not worry theseeker. Where there is honest effort, it will be realized that what appearedto be different truths are like the countless and apparen