The art of writing is the art of restraint.

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.

Outside noisy, inside empty.

It isnot necessary to understand things in order to argue about them.

Power does not corrupt men; fools, however, if they getinto a position of power, corrupt power.

Power takes as ingratitude the writhing of its victims.

Whoeverhas the mind to fight has broken his connection with the universe. If you tryto dominate people you are already defeated. We study how to resolveconflict, not how to start it.

Younever really understand a person until you consider things from his point ofview.

Thereis no advancement to him who stands trembling because he cannot see the endfrom the beginning.

Happinessis the only sanction of life; where happiness fails, existence remains a madand lamentable experiment.

Thetruth is that our finest moments are most likely to occur when we are feelingdeeply uncomfortable, unhappy, or unfulfilled. For it is only in suchmoments, propelled by our discomfort, that we are likely to step out of ourruts and start searching for di

Sciencecannot resolve moral conflicts, but it can help to more accurately frame thedebates about those conflicts.