The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitudes.
We know the meaning so long as no one asks us to define it.
Wisdom is learning what to overlook.
Most men's friendships are too inarticulate.
Resign your destiny to higher powers.
The greatest weapon against stress is our ability to choose one thought over another.
The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without the sympathy of the community.
If you want a quality, act as if you already had it.
To change one’s life: 1. Start immediately.
Life is one long struggle between conclusions based on abstract ways of conceiving cases and opposite conclusions prompted by our instinctive perception of them.
The world we see that seems so insane is the result of a belief system that is not working. To perceive the world differently, we must be willing to change our belief system, let the past slip away, e...
Truth is what works.
The sway of alcohol over mankind is unquestionably due to its power to stimulate the mystical faculties of human nature, usually crushed to earth by the cold facts and dry criticisms of the sober hour...
Men habitually use only a small part of the powers which they possess and which they might use under appropriate circumstances.
We have to live today by what truth we can get today and be ready tomorrow to call it falsehood.
It is only by risking ... that we live at all.
Lives based on having are less free than lives based either on doing or on being.
With mere good intentions hell is proverbially paved.
Work usually follows will.
Impulse without reason is not enough and reason without impulse is a poor makeshift.