Carefully avoid in yourself those things which distrub you in others.

Let nothing disturb you, let nothing frighten you. All things are passing. God alone remains

He who has peace of mind disturbs neither himself nor another.

What really frightens and dismays us is not external events themselves, but the way in which we think about them. It is not things that disturb us, but our interpretation of their significance.

If small things have the power to disturb you, then who you think you are is exactly that: small.

There is an unbroken line of police violence in the United States that takes us all the way back to the days of slavery, the aftermath of slavery, the development of the Ku Klux Klan. There is so much history of this racist violence that simply to bring one person to justice is not going to disturb the whole racist edifice

Do I dare disturb the universe?

You can’t be disturbed by anything. There’s no emotion involved. You can’t feel sorrow, you can’t feel pity, there’s nothing you feel. The job has to be done.