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.

Comedy is an escape, not from the truth but from despair; a narrow escape into faith.

Communicationis not only the essence of being human, but also a vital property of life.

He who asks questions cannot avoid the answers.

An artist is only a very small part of the universe and should receive no more attention than any other thing on earth which provides us with beauty, happiness and plenty

Listeningwell is as powerful a means of communication and influence as to talk well.

Familiarize yourself with the chains of bondage and you prepare your own limbs to wear them.

Thoroughnesscharacterizes all successful men. Genius is the art of taking infinite pains.All great achievement has been characterized by extreme care, infinitepainstaking, even to the minutest detail.

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.

You can't go very far if you don't begin very near.

I have oftenregretted my speech, never my silence.

Whenevertwo good people argue over principles, they are both right.