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.
You can have power over people as long as you don't takeeverything away from them. But when you've robbed a man of everything, he'sno longer in your power.
Artists can color the sky red because they know its blue.those of us who are not artists must color things the way they really are or people might think we are stupid.