If you ain't never pick up the sword,you ain't never have to worry about fallin' on it.

We gain freedom when we have paid full price for our right to live.

We thought, because we had power, we had wisdom.

The present is never a happy state to any being

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.

Sorrow and silence are strong, and patient endurance is god-like.

Money is what things run into and people run out of

The exercise of power is determined by thousands ofinteractions between the world of the powerful and that of the powerless, allthe more so because these worlds are never divided by a sharp line: everyonehas a small part of himself in both.

Responsibility is the high price of self-ownership.

Snap judgment has a way of becoming unfastened.

Of all the ways to make your fortune the quickest and the best is to make people see clearly how much is your success is in there interest

Laughter is shortest distance between two people.