we have to live today by what truth we can get today and be ready tomorrow to call it falsehood

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.

You come down here to console me. That is charming of you. You find me consoled, and you are furious. How like a sympathetic person!

WHY is the word which changed the world

Capital punishment is as fundamentally wrong as a cure for crime as charity is wrong as a cure for poverty.

Since day one, since the first time I touched the pen, I wanted to be the best at what I do.

You really want to know what else it was my mom said about you?" he asked. She shook her head. He didn't seem to notice. "She said you'd break my heart," he told her, and left.

We are social beings and our brains grow in a social environment.

No: war material is life-saving for one's own people and whoever works and performs in these spheres can be proud of it; here enterprise as a whole finds its highest justification of existence.

The test of interesting people is that subject matter doesn't matter.

If virtue were its own reward, it would no longer be a human quality, but supernatural.

I may be crazy, but it keeps me from going insane.