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

Remember above all that mental stability comes by examining the contents of the mind, not by avoidence.

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.

We must become acquainted with our emotional household: we must see our feelings as they actually are, not as we assume they are. This breaks their hypnotic and damaging hold on us.

If you call one thing good, you must call its opposite bad. If you think it wonderful to make a big profit in your business, you will also think it terrible if you incur a large loss. The idea is to live above the opposites.

Instead of fighting your problems, picture your way out of them.

We are slaves to whatever we don't understand.