It is well for the world that in most of us, by the age of thirty, the character has set like plaster, and will never soften again.
To study the abnormal is the best way of understanding the normal.
Faith means belief in something concerning which doubt is theoretically possible.
Belief creates the actual fact.
Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of humor is just common sense, dancing.
Time itself comes in drops.
Our faith is faith in someone else's faith, and in the greatest matters this is most the case.
Action may not bring happiness but there is no happiness without action.
There is but one cause of human failure. And that is man's lack of faith in his true Self.
The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitudes.
We are all ready to be savage in some cause. The difference between a good man and a bad one is the choice of the cause.
The aim of a college education is to teach you to know a good man when you see one.
Man lives for science as well as bread.
Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.
If the grace of God miraculously operates, it probably operates through the subliminal door.
We have to live today by what truth we can get today and be ready tomorrow to call it falsehood.
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.
Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.
The best argument I know for an immortal life is the existence of a man who deserves one.
This life is worth living, we can say, since it is what we make it.
Most people never run far enough on their first wind to find out they've got a second.
In business for yourself, not by yourself.
If merely 'feeling good' could decide, drunkenness would be the supremely valid human experience.
A chain is no stronger than its weakest link, and life is after all a chain.
Knowledge about life is one thing effective occupation of a place in life, with its dynamic currents passing through your being, is another.
Truth is what works.
The history of philosophy is to a great extent that of a certain clash of human temperaments.
The deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated.
A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices.
It is our attitude at the beginning of a difficult task which, more than anything else, will affect its successful outcome.
The ideas gained by men before they are twenty-five are practically the only ideas they shall have in their lives.
Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.
If you care enough for a result, you will most certainly attain it.
Great emergencies and crises show us how much greater our vital resources are than we had supposed.
Pessimism leads to weakness, optimism to power.