The first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: Decide what you want.
We are able to laugh when we achieve detachment, if only for a moment.
A conference is a gathering of important people who singly can do nothing, but together can decide that nothing can be done.
Depend not on another, but lean instead on thyself...True happiness is born of self-reliance.
People everywhere confuse what they read in newspapers with news.
He's simply got the instinct for being unhappy highly developed.
I said to myself, I have things in my head that are not like what anyone has taught me - shapes and ideas so near to me - so natural to my way of being and thinking that it hasn't occurred to me to put them down. I decided to start anew, to strip away what I had been taught.