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

It is against the law to permit weak people to steal your strength. Never permit it.

Men have the illusion of having a duty to make the world spin properly, which is precisely what makes it wobble.

The world consists of imaginary people, claiming imaginary virtues and suffering from imaginary happiness.

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.

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

When you are genuinely strong, you neither attack nor defend and so retain your energy.