Happiness is a direction, not a place.

Any philosophy that can be put in a nutshell belongs there.

The difference between faith and superstition is that the first uses reason to go as far as it can, and then makes the jump; the second shuns reason entirely — which is why superstition is not the ally, but the enemy, of true religion.

All significant achievement comes from daring from experiment from the willingness to risk failure.

Many people feel "guilty" about things they shouldn't feel guilty about, in order to shut out feelings of guilt about things they should feel guilty about.

People decline invitations when they are "indisposed" physically, and I wish they would do likewise when they feel indisposed emotionally. A person has no more right to attend a party with a head full of venom than with a throat full of virus.

As WArden Lawes once said of convicts, no man can be called a failure until he has tried something he really likes, and fails at it.