Resistance to the disturbance is the disturbance.

A truly strong person does not need the approval of others any more than a lion needs the approval of sheep.

Always walk through life as if you have something new to learn, and you will.

Our freedom can be measured by the number of things we can walk away from.

A cheery relaxation is man's natural state, just as nature itself is relaxed. A waterfall is concerned only with being itself, not with doing something it considers waterfall-like.

You have succeeded in life when all you really WANT is only what you really NEED.

No one on earth can hurt you, unless you accept the hurt in your own mind. . . The problem is not other people; it is your reaction.

You cannot stop destructive actions by others, but you can stop your own destructive reactions to them

Run forward when possible, walk ahead when you can, stagger onward when you must, but never cease your forward movement.

We can accept God becoming Man to save Man, but not Man becoming God to save himself.

Be teachable. That is the whole secret.

Money is made only from time well converted.

He that would govern others first should be master of himself.

Treat yourself as if you were someone inexpressibly dear to you.

If trade undermines life, narrows it or impoverishes it, then it can destroy the world. If it enhances life, then it can better the world.

The place was so British, I wouldn't have been surprised if the mice wore monocles.

The Spaniards have a saying that there is no man whom Fortune does not visit at least once in his life.

Fear is the most valuable commodity in the universe.

Thanks to those pesky laws of physics, when things aren't sustainable, they stop.

The conduct of a wise politician is ever suited to the present posture of affairs. Often by foregoing a part he saves the whole, and by yielding in a small matter secures a greater.

I've got this terrible hernia. People think it's a fat gut, but it's not.