If our early lessons of acceptance were as successful as our early lessons of anger, how much happier we would all be.
When we are unhurried and wise, we perceive that only great and worthy things have any permanent and absolute existence, that petty fears and petty pleasures are but the shadow of the reality.
The happiest is the person who suffers the least pain; the most miserable who enjoys the least pleasure.
The first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: Decide what you want.
None are so busy as the fool and knave.
The summer night is like a perfection of thought.
I am more and more convinced that our happiness or unhappiness depends more on the way we meet the events of life than on the nature of those events themselves.
I never know how much of what I say is true.
Inside myself is a place where I live all alone and that's where you renew your springs that never dry up.