If you would know what nobody knows, read what everybody reads just after one year afterwards.

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.

He approaches nearest to the gods who knows how to be silent, even though he is in the right.

Wecould never learn to be brave and patient if there were only joy in the world.

Our fear of disasters that may never happen robs us of the courage to meet the ills that do occur

Whateverfailures I have known, whatever errors I have committed, whatever follies Ihave witnessed in private and public life have been the consequence of actionwithout thought.

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

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

It isthe acid test of nonviolence that in a nonviolent conflict there is no rancorleft behind, and in the end the enemies are converted into friends.

Thecourts of this country should not be the places where resolution of disputesbegins. They should be the places where the disputes end after alternativemethods of resolving disputes have been considered and tried.

True, Heavenprohibits certain pleasures; but one can generally negotiate a compromise.

All creeds and opinions are nothing but the result of chance and temperament.