If it is peace you want, seek to change yourself, not other people. It is easier to protect your feet with slippers than to carpet the whole of the earth.

There is only one cause of unhappiness: the false beliefs you have in your head, beliefs so widespread, so commonly held, that it never occurs to you to question them.

Wisdom tends to grow in proportion to one's awareness of one's ignorance.

Another illusion is that external events have the power to hurt you, that other people have the power to hurt you. They don't. It's you who give this power to them.

Extend your arms in welcome to the future. The best is yet to come!

When you fight something, you're tied to it forever. As long as you're fighting it, you’re giving it power.

You don't have to add anything in order to be happy; you've got to drop something.

One year of life is worth more than twenty years of hibernation.

"What is love?"; "The total absence of fear," said the Master; "What is it we fear?"; "Love," said the Master.

A nice definition of an awakened person: a person who no longer marches to the drums of society, a person who dances to the tune of the music that springs up from within.

Because everyone is the same distance from the sun. Does it really lessen the distance if you live on top of a skyscraper?

When we read too fast or too slowly, we understand nothing.

No one ever thinks about the guy who was raised by the guy who was raised by wolves.

Are you speaking your mind or expressing your feelings?

I've never felt that I've had some great fashion sense of my own - I tend to wear what my wife tells me to wear.

Writers are nothing but beggars with a good line.

[Man] progresses in all things by making a fool of himself.

Perseverance is demonstrated by those who keep going when the going gets tough, who don’t give up even when others say, It can’t be done.

They cripple the bird's wing, and then condemn it for not flying as fast as they.

I'm not perfect, I'm a flawed man, but I'm willing to try to get better, I'm willing to listen.

Frankly I had thought that at the time Roe was decided, there was concern about population growth and particularly growth in populations that we don't want to have too many of.