Cruelty practiced as a matter of social principle or public policy, and presented to the community as a means to a higher goal is the most obscene and decadent phenomenon of any civilization.

One false idea is that anyone can hurt you. Events can ruin your reputation, take your money, mistreat you, revenge itself upon you, deceive, betray, abandon you, but cannot hurt you.

Human sickness is so severe that few can bear to look at it...but those who do will become well.

We clearly realize that freedom's inner kingdom cannot be touched by exterior attacks.

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

The power of the present moment is so immense it is capable - when lived in fully - of destroying forever every past mistake and regret.

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!