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.

Wisdom requires that we pour a little oil of delicate courtesy on the wheels of friendship.

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

Sweet is pleasure after pain

... 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

Thedifference between the right word and the almost right word is the differencebetween lightning and a lightning bug.

The man who says he's too old to learn new tricks probably always was.

The hearthas arguments with which the logic of mind is not acquainted.

A smallbenefit obtained is better than a great one in expectation.

Thosewho are at war with others are not at peace with themselves.

Inbusiness, you don't get what you deserve, you get what you negotiate.

Pessimism, when you get used to it, is just as agreeable as optimism.