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.

Nothing doth more hurt in a state that cunning men pass for wise.

The Natural flights of Human mind are not from Pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope.

Tact is the ability to make a person see the lightning without letting him feel the bolt.

One ofthe lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and alwaysa clever thing to say.

Whenyou plant lettuce, if it does not grow well, you don't blame the lettuce. Youlook for reasons it is not doing well. It may need fertilizer, or more water,or less sun. You never blame the lettuce. Yet if we have problems with ourfriends or our family,

Nothing makes it easier to resist temptation than a proper upbringing, a sound set of values.

Theshallower the brook, the more it babbles.

Agrievance is most poignant when almost redressed.

The Shortest distance between two jokes makess a perfect speech.

Every village has to become a self-sufficient republic.

As if you could kill time without injuring eternity.