See human nonsense as nonsense and save years of trying to make sense out of it.

Bitterness is the outcome of a wrong mental movement - the attempt to force external events to conform to internal fantasy. The cure is to see fantasy as fantasy, which will reveal it as neither necessary nor rewarding.

To change what you get you must change who you are.

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.

We can no more enjoy life by hoping for a future result than we can enjoy music by waiting for the final note.

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

It is a true miracle when a man finally sees himself as his only opposition.