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.

There is an organic affinity between joyousness and tenderness.

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

As a rule reading fiction is as hard to me as trying to hit a target by hurling feathers at it. I need resistance to celebrate!

The man who knows governments most completely is he who troubles himself least about a definition which shall give their essence. Enjoying an intimate acquaintance with all their particularities in turn, he would naturally regard an abstract conception in which these were unified as a thing more misleading than enlightening.

The love of life, at any and every level of development, is the religious impulse.

In the dim background of our mind we know meanwhile what we ought to be doing: getting up, dressing ourselves, answering the person who has spoken to us, trying to make the next step in our reasoning. But somehow we cannot start.