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 goodlistener is not someone with nothing to say. A good listener is a good talkerwith a sore throat.

Keep inmind that the better you understand what you want and why you want it, thebetter your chances will be of acquiring it.

Far better to think historically, to remember the lessonsof the past. Thus, far better to conceive of power as consisting in part ofthe knowledge of when not to use all the power you have. Far better to be onewho knows that if you reserve the power not to

Whetherit's the best of times or the worst of times, it's the only time we've got.

Mistakes are to Life what shadows are to Light.

Friendship increases in visiting friends, but in visiting them seldom.

Nature gave women too much power; the law gives them too little.

Use softwords and hard arguments.

All that is sometimes needed to make you content with you lot is a bad dream.

Some people suffer in silence louder than others

Civilization has made the peasantry its pack animal.