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.

Goodcommunication is as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard to sleepafter.

Silence is argument carried out by other means.

Beware of the chap who reminds you that you can't take it with you . he'll try to take it with him.

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.

Acreaking door hangs long on its hinges.

Speechis human, silence is divine, yet also brutish and dead; therefore we mustlearn both arts.

No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.

One of the difficult things to give away is kindness - is usually returned

Gossip is that which no one claims to like-but everybody enjoys.

The past is always dogging our heals, striving ceaselessly to banish the present.

We do not err because the truth is difficult to see. We err because this is more comfortable