More movement, and the sense of bodies being shackled in alongside of me.
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.
Whenever evil befalls us, we ought to ask ourselves, after the first suffering, how we can turn it into good. So shall we take occasion, from one bitter root, to raise perhaps many flowers.
I never think of the future - it comes soon enough.
I take it that what all men are really after is some form or perhaps only some formula of peace.
Do not be awe struck by other people and try to copy them. Nobody can be you as efficiently as you can.
The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd; indeed in view of the silliness of the majority of mankind, a widespread belief is more likely to be foolish than sensible.