You do not sing because you're happy, you're happy because you sing.

Democracy is still upon its trial. The civic genius of our people is its only bulwark.

The whole drift of my education goes to persuade me that the world of our present consciousness is only one out of many worlds of consciousness that exist.

I know that you, ladies and gentlemen, have a philosophy, each and all of you, and that the most interesting and important thing about you is the way in which it determines the perspective in your several worlds.

Let sanguine healthy-mindedness do its best with its strange power of living in the moment and ignoring and forgetting, still the evil background is really there to be thought of, and the skull will grin in at the banquet.

As a rule we disbelieve all the facts and theories for which we have no use.

I myself believe that the evidence for God lies primarily in inner personal experiences.