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 is only when men begin to worship that they begin to grow.

Girls .. . were allowed to play in the house . . . and boys were sent outdoors. . .Boys ran around in the yard with toy guns going kksshh-kksshh,fighting wars for made-up reasons and arguing about whowas dead, while girls stayed inside and played with dol

The present is never a happy state to any being

Learning must be had, but in the second place, as subsequent only to greater qualities.

Prayer changes things by changing people.

If you are standing upright, don't worry if your shadow is crooked.

Politicians are the same all over. They promise to build a bridge even where there is no river.

There are three ways of bearing ills of life: by indifference, by philosophy, and by religion.

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

Welearn little from victory, much from defeat.

Consistencyis the hobgoblin of little minds.