We have grown literally afraid to be poor. We despise anyone who elects to be poor in order to simplify and save his inner life. If he does not join the general scramble and pant with the money-making street, we deem him spiritless and lacking in ambition

A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices.

There can be no final truth in ethics any more than in physics, until the last man has had his experience and said his say.

Considering the inner fitness of things, one would rather think that the very first act of a will endowed with freedom should be to sustain the belief in the freedom itself.

In all this process of acquiring conceptions, a certain instinctive order is followed. There is a native tendency to assimilate certain kinds of conception at one age, and other kinds of conception at a later age.

You may not get everything you dream about, but you will never get anything you don't dream about.

The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitudes.