“Faith means belief in something concerning which doubt is theoretically possible”

“Whenever you're in conflict with someone, there is one factor that can make the difference between damaging your relationship and deepening it. That factor is attitude.”

Truth happens to an idea."

The deepest principle of human nature is the craving to be appreciated."

"What an awful trade that of professor is - paid to talk, talk, talk! It would be an awful universe if everything could be converted into words, words, words."

He who refuses to embrace a unique opportunity loses the prize as surely as if he had tried and failed."

There is but one cause of human failure. And that is man's lack of faith in his true Self."

"It is our attitude at the beginning of a difficult task which, more than anything else, will affect its successful outcome.

"If merely 'feeling good' could decide, drunkenness would be the supremely valid human experience."

How to gain, how to keep, how to recover happiness is in fact for most men at all times the secret motive of all they do, and of all they are willing to endure."

"Everybody should do at least two things each day that he hates to do, just for practice

"Compared to what we ought to be, we are half awake."

"Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of humor is just common sense, dancing."

"Philosophy is at once the most sublime and the most trivial of human pursuits."

"Be willing to have it so. Acceptance of what has happened is the first step to overcoming the

The great thing, then, in all education, is to make our nervous system our ally instead of our enemy.

These, then are my last words to you: be not afraid of life. Believe that life is worth living, and your belief will help create the fact.

There is only one thing a philosopher can be relied upon to do, and that is to contradict other philosophers.

There is no more miserable human being than one in whom nothing is habitual but indecision.

The most immutable barrier in nature is between one man's thoughts and another's.