On pragmatistic principles, if the hypothesis of God works satisfactorily in the widest sense of the word, it is true.

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.

Arrogance created to project a self-image of superiority is the very trait that demonstrates to others deeply hidden inferiority.

The person she liked best didn't like her enough to want more of her, and she didn't want to pretend that wasn't awful.

Many things we need can wait. The child cannot. Now is the time his bones are formed, his mind developed. To him we cannot say tomorrow, his name is today.

You are not angry with people when you laugh at them. Humor teaches tolerance.

People now are beginning to cheer for me. I've never heard that before. .. Maybe things are turning a bit.

The student who deceives himself into thinking that he is giving his life like an ascetic in the spirit of sacrifice for art, is the victim of a deplorable species of egotism.

The more you think, the more time you have.

I've lived history. I've made history, and I know I'll have my place in history. That's not egoism.

We ought to regard amiability as the quality of woman, dignity that of man.

Do not merely think that you are great; think that you are great now. Do not think that you will begin to act in a great way at some future time; begin now.