All our life, so far as it has definite form, is but a mass of habits.

My thinking is first and last and always for the sake of my doing, and I can only do one thing at a time.

Objective evidence and certitude are doubtless very fine ideals to play with, but where on this moonlit and dream-visited planet are they found?

Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of humor is just common sense, dancing.

We are doomed to cling to a life even while we find it unendurable.

There are 3 rules to follow if you want to change; (1) Start immediately, (2) Do it flamboyantly, (3) No exceptions.

The pragmatist turns away from abstraction and insufficiency, from verbal solutions, from bad a priori reasons, from fixed principles, closed systems, and pretended absolutes and origins. He turns toward concreteness and adequacy, towards facts, towards action, and towards power.