A man may not achieve everything he has dreamed, but he will never achieve anything great without having dreamed it first.

Man lives by habits indeed, but what he lives for is thrill and excitements. ... From time immemorial war has been ... the supremely thrilling excitement.

The transition from tenseness, self-responsibility, and worry, to equanimity, receptivity, and peace, is the most wonderful of all those shiftings of inner equilibrium, those changes of personal centre of energy, which I have analyzed so often; and the chief wonder of it is that it so often comes about, not by doing, but by simply relaxing and throwing the burden down.

Genius... means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an unhabitual way.

If you give appreciation to people, you win their goodwill. But more important than that, practicing this philosophy has made a different person of me.

Every sort of energy and endurance, of courage and capacity for handling life's evils, is set free in those who have religious faith.

To be a real philosopher all that is necessary is to hate some one else's type of thinking.