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 is what you get for a lifetime of listening when you'd have preferred totalk.

Ashes fly back into the face of him who throws them.

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

Icannot divine how it happens that the man who knows the least is the mostargumentative.

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.

Wisdomis what you get for a lifetime of listening when you'd have preferred totalk.

Even a dog knows the difference between being stumbledover and being kicked.

A happy home is one in which each spouse grants the possiblility that the other may be right, though neither believes it.

No nation is so poor that it cannot afford to gie free speech

You gotto be very careful if you don't know where you're going, because you mightnot get there.

Earnest people are often people who habitually look on the serious side of things that have no serious side