A man who is master of himself can end a sorrow as easily as he can invent a pleasure.

I have no desire to suffer twice, in reality and then in retrospect.

Don't be in a hurry to condemn because he doesn't do what you do or think as you do or as fast. There is a time when you didn't know what you know today.

In order to enjoy the inestimable benefits that the liberty of the press ensures, it is necessary to submit to the inevitable evils that it creates.

We must each lead a way of life with self-awareness and compassion, to do as much as we can. Then, whatever happens we will have no regrets.

Feelings come and go like clouds in a windy sky. Conscious breathing is my anchor.

An aspiration is a joy forever, a possession as solid as a landed estate, a fortune which we can never exhaust and which gives us year by year a revenue of pleasurable activity.

Surely human affairs would be far happier if the power in men to be silent were the same as that to speak. But experience more than sufficiently teaches that men govern nothing with more difficulty than their tongues.

Self-control is strength. Right thought is mastery. Calmness is power.

I hope our wisdom will grow with our power, and teach us, that the less we use our power the greater it will be.

The day will soon come when I will show the world that the transmission of power and speech without the aid of any wires is possible.

Put yourself in a state of mind where you say to yourself, "Here is an opportunity for me to celebrate like never before, my own power, my own ability to get myself to do whatever is necessary.

My way of joking is to tell the truth. It is the funniest joke in the world.

Conceit spoils the finest genius… and the great charm of all power is modesty.

Next to the assumption of power is the responsibility of relinquishing it.