Girls .. . were allowed to play in the house . . . and boys were sent outdoors. . .Boys ran around in the yard with toy guns going kksshh-kksshh,fighting wars for made-up reasons and arguing about whowas dead, while girls stayed inside and played with dol

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.

The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends upon the unreasonable man.

People loan their trust, they don't give it.

The fundamental concept in social science is Power, in thesame sense in which Energy is the fundamental concept in physics.

You may give gifts without caring, but you can't care without giving

A taste for truth at any cost is a passion which spares nothing:

Thedeeper the waters are, the more still they run.

Let no one, then think lightly of the world, lest he be despising himself unawares

If a man speaks or acts with pure thought, happiness follows him like a shadow that never leaves him

Peoplespend a lifetime searching for happiness; looking for peace. They chase idledreams, addictions, religions, even other people, hoping to fill theemptiness that plagues them. The irony is the only place they ever needed tosearch was within.

Light is good in whatever lamp it may burn; even as a rose is beautiful in whatever garden it may bloom.