Seek out that particular mental attribute which makes you feel most deeply and vitally alive.

I am, myself, a very poor visualizer and find that I can seldom call to mind even a single letter of the alphabet in purely retinal terms. I must trace the letter by running my mental eye over its contour in order that the image of it shall leave any distinctness at all.

Science can tell us what exists; but to compare the worths, both of what exists and of what does not exist, we must consult not science, but what Pascal calls our heart.

What every genuine philosopher (every genuine man, in fact) craves most is praise although the philosophers generally call it recognition!

New habits can be launched.

Every man who possibly can should force himself to a holiday of a full month in a year, whether he feels like taking it or not.

If you care enough for a result, you will most certainly attain it.