If you truly want to be respected by people you love, you must prove to them that you can survive without them.

With a philosophy education, one can infuriate his peers, intimidate his date, think of obscure, unreliable ways to make money, and never regret a thing.

Always remember that you were once alone, and the crowd you see in your life today are just as unecessary as when you were alone.

He’d pushed it back, where he’d kept the thought for weeks, but it wouldn’t stay. Wouldn’t stop. Wouldn’t let him go.

Common man's patience will bring him more happiness than common man's power.

There are better people in the world, do not let the worst do the worst to you, you deserve the best in life.

The truly cultured are capable of owning thousands of unread books without losing their composure or their desire for more.

My self is a thing that I must now compose...as one composes a speech. What I must present is a 'made' thing. Not something born.

You do not attain success when you associate with those in high positions, It comes when you accept yourself and realize that only you can take yourself to where your heart truly lies.

Always try to come back to your senses when in love, because that's the moment you become almost carried away by sensuality and sentiments.

It was clearly a lot more difficult in the field than in the office, where you could keep your distance and maintain a calculated composure. Being faced with real people was a far tougher call on one’s judgement.

As soon as anger knocks at one’s door, wisdom prepares to leave.

Patience is the antidote to the restless poison of the Ego. Without it we all become ego-maniacal bulls in china shops, destroying our future happiness as we blindly rush in where angels fear to tread. In these out-of-control moments, we bulldoze through the best possible outcomes for our lives, only to return to the scene of the crime later to cry over spilt milk.

Stop falling for those who won't raise you up in the future.

Ladies and gentlemen, when you paint your lips, eyes, nails, hair, side-beards, or whatever, to look beautiful or handsome, don't forget your up stairs, if you don't go up there to put things in order, then, consider the former attributes null and void.

If we are calm," replied the policeman, "it is the calm of organized resistance.""Eh?" said Syme, staring."The soldier must be calm in the thick of the battle," pursued the policeman. "The composure of an army is the anger of a nation.

I cannot let my blood pressure rise because someone wishes to spread his or her bad day around, as if to dilute instead of multiply it.

Don't let out your true behaviour in the public, even if you were born nasty, make others feel you were well bred.

The passage is free for those who think you are not good enough for them: at your level, I think the best option is to sit back, relax and listen to a cool music, while watching them pack out of your life, and that's when you feel the intense release from the pit of hell.

Idly, Wick wondered if he should feel insulted. Then he decided there really wasn't any room for considering an insult with all the fear running rampant in his mind. Maybe he was quiet on the outside, but he knew he was running around screaming inside his thoughts.

Although she was fragile in appearance, every prohibition lost substance in her presence.

I am more and more convinced that some people are put in our lives solely to try our patience and tamper with our tolerance levels.

Composure, a level head, a knowledge of what you want done, and why you want it done andfaith in your own ability to have it done gives composure to the whole school. Restlessness, lackof faith in self, fear of failure, these bring about the very conditions you are striving to avoid,

She (the First Lady, entering the room with her gravely wounded husband) would admit fear but not despair.

She had the experience to suffer with discretion.