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.

It's not only later than you think- it's sooner than you suspect.

Differentfields, different grasshoppers; different seas, different fish.

Sorrow and silence are strong, and patient endurance is god-like.

Whenyou plant lettuce, if it does not grow well, you don't blame the lettuce. Youlook for reasons it is not doing well. It may need fertilizer, or more water,or less sun. You never blame the lettuce. Yet if we have problems with ourfriends or our family,

Honesty and Wisdom are such a delightful pastime, at another person's expense !

A critic is a man who knows the way but can't drive the car.

Don'twrestle a pig in a mud hole. You both get all dirty, and the pig enjoys it.

Successdepends upon previous preparation, and without such preparation there is sureto be failure.

The exercise of power is determined by thousands ofinteractions between the world of the powerful and that of the powerless, allthe more so because these worlds are never divided by a sharp line: everyonehas a small part of himself in both.

All our rightousnesses are like filthy rags

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