Can you think of anything more permanently elating than to know that you are on the right road at last?

When one plan that you have, to get this or to get that, to advance in the world, or whatever it might be, when that seems in danger of veering off the path you have set for it, you have your emergency plan ready. And in simple language what that emergency plan is, what you put into operation, is called worry. If you can worry you are occupied, and what an incredible human situation it is!

Freedom begins as we become conscious of it.

Genuine kindness is not what we do, it is what we are.

The only way to do something truly important every day is to seek to understand yourself every day.

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.

Self-knowledge is the great power by which we comprehend and control our lives