You must believe that you can help bring about a better world.

No satisfaction based upon self-deception is solid.

Most political leaders acquire their position by causing large numbers of people to believe that these leaders are actuated by altruistic desires

Belief in God and a future life makes it possible to go through life with less of stoic courage than is needed by skeptics.

Drunkeness is temporary suicide: the happiness that it brings is merely negative, a momentary cessation of unhappiness.

The man who is unhappy will, as a rule, adopt an unhappy creed, while the man who is happy will adopt a happy creed; each may attribute his happiness or unhappiness to his beliefs, while the real causation is the other way round.

One's work is never so bad as it appears on bad days, nor so good as it appears on good days.