Marriagemeans expectations and expectations mean conflict.

Some people suffer in silence louder than others

Reasonand emotion are not antagonists. What seems like a struggle between twoopposing ideas or values, one of which, automatic and unconscious, manifestsitself in the form of a feeling.

Power is the faculty or capacity to act, the strength andpotency to accomplish something. It is the vital energy to make choices anddecisions. It also includes the capacity to overcome deeply embedded habitsand to cultivate higher, more effective ones.

Nature's instructions are always slow, those of men are generally premature.

Manners are the hypocrisy of a nation.

The average man’s life consists of: Twenty years of having his mother ask him where he is going, Forty years of having his wife ask the same question; and at the end, the mourners wondering too.

It is no profit to have learned well, if you neglect to do well.

A cup is useful only when it is empty; and a mind that is filled with beliefs, with dogmas, with assertions, with quotations, is really an uncreative mind.

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.

Peacecan not be kept by force. It can only be won, through understanding. Ourlonging for understandingis Eternal.

Aclosed mind is like a closed book; just a block of wood.