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.

A man of courage is also full of faith.

Weagree completely on everything, including the fact we don't see eye to eye.

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.

There is sweet joy that comes to us that comes to us after sorrow.

Fools rush in where fools have been before.

People who do not believe in miracles are not realist.

Be your own judge and you will be happy.

Bythree methods we may learn wisdom: first, by reflection, which is noblest;second, imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is thebitterest.

Changemeans movement. Movement means friction. Only in the frictionless vacuum of anonexistent abstract world can movement or change occur without that abrasivefriction of conflict.

A barking dog is often more useful than a sleeping lion.

The rulers must be watched, not the ruled.