The chances are that you have already come to believe that happiness is unattainable. But men have attained it. And they have attained it by realizing that happiness does not spring from the procuring of physical or mental pleasure, but from the development of reason and the adjustment of conduct to principles.

There is no magic method of beginning... Take hold of your nerves, and jump.

Saw Washington Monument. Phallic. Appalling. A national catastrophe.

We shall never have more time. We have, and always had, all the time there is. No object is served in waiting until next week or even until tomorrow. Keep going... Concentrate on something useful.

The great advantage of being in a rut is that when one is in a rut, one knows exactly where one is.

It is easier to go down a hill than up, but the view is from the top.

No mind, however loving, could bear to see plainly into all the recess of another mind.