My thinking is first and last and always for the sake of my doing, and I can only do one thing at a time.
William JamesMost unhappiness is caused because people listen to themselves... instead of talking to themselves.
William JamesPretend what we may, the whole man within us is at work when we form our philosophical opinions.
William JamesWhat excites and interests the looker-on at life, what the romances and the statues celebrate, and the grim civic monuments remind us of, is the everlasting battle of the powers of light with those of darkness; with heroism reduced to its bare chance, yet ever and anon snatching victory from the jaws of death.
William James