Since we cannot change reality, let us change the eyes which see reality.

We cannot pretend that reality is different from what it is.

We often pardon those that annoy us, but we cannot pardon those we annoy.

Let us take things as we find them: let us not attempt to distort them into what they are not... We cannot make facts. All our wishing cannot change them. We must use them.

No one will do for you what you need to do for yourself. We cannot afford to be separate. We have to see that all of us are in the same boat.

Nothing is nearer to us than heaven. The earth is beneath our feet, and we tread upon it, but heaven is within us.