All our scientific and philosophic ideals are altars to unknown gods.

The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitudes.

A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices.

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

Whenever two people meet, there are really six people present. There is each man as he sees himself, each man as the other person sees him, and each man as he really is.

Most unhappiness is caused because people listen to themselves... instead of talking to themselves.

The great use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it.

If you can change your mind, you can change your life.

Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.

You can alter your life by altering the state of your mind.

Real servants don't try to use God for their purposes. They let God use them for His purposes.

Serve, serve.

Cath shook her head. "Now is all you get, " she spat out, wishing she could make more sense. Wishing for more words, or better ones. "Now is all you ever get.

Vice can be learnt even without a teacher.

Since all things are God, in all things thou seest just so much of God as thy capacity affordeth thee.

I've done 80 books and if anyone has entertained the idea of owning one of my books, I think this is the book that covers all the bases. I'm very proud of it.

I think trying to be cool is the worst possible ambition - and I have never suffered from it.

Do not confuse fantasy with imagination; the former consumes itself in daydreaming, the latter stimulates creativity in the arts and in the sciences.

To be wise is to be eternally curious.

If Heaven and Earth are unable to persist, how could man?

The more women there are about, the softer a wise man steps.