The strenuous life tastes better

If you want to change your life, do it flamboyantly and start immediately.

I am tired of the position of the dried-up critic and doubter. The believer is the true full man. (from a biography of James by Robert D. Richardson)

Evil is a disease; and worry over disease is itself an additional form of disease, which only adds to the original complaint.

Serious development of the personality begins at the closet door.

The science of logic never made a man reason rightly, and the science of ethics never made a man behave rightly. The most such sciences can do is to help us to catch ourselves up and check ourselves, if we start to reason or to behave wrongly; and to criticise ourselves more articulately after we have made mistakes.

Pessimism leads to weakness. Optimism leads to power.