After all it is those who have a deep and real inner life who are best able to deal with the irritating details of outer life.
We learn and grow and are transformed not so much by what we do but by why and how we do it.
Try to put your happiness before anyone else's, because you may never have done so in your entire life, if you really think about it, if you are really honest with yourself.
From the moment I picked up your book until I laid it down, I was convulsed with laughter. Some day I intend reading it.
The crowd gives the leader new strength.
You have to recognize when the right place and the right time fuse and take advantage of that opportunity. There are plenty of opportunities out there. You can't sit back and wait.
The radical of one century is the conservative of the next. The radical invents the views. When he has worn them out the conservative adopts them.
Set all things in their own peculiar place, and know that order is the greatest grace.
I have come to the conclusion that politics are too serious a matter to be left to the politicians.