The greatest discovery of the 20th Century is that our attitude of mind determines our quality of life, not circumstances.

Act in earnest and you will become earnest in all you do.

Our belief at the beginning of a doubtful undertaking is the one thing that assures the successful outcome of any venture.

Faith branches off the highroad before reason begins

Great indeed is Fear; but it is not, as our military enthusiasts believe and try to make us believe, the only stimulus known for awakening the higher ranges of men's spiritual energy.

Out of time we cut 'days' and 'nights', 'summers' and 'winters.' We say what, each part of the sensible continuum is, and all these abstract whats are concepts. The intelletual life of man consists almost wholly in his substitution of a conceptual order for the persceptual order in which his experience originally comes.

Sobriety diminishes, discriminates, and says no; drunkenness expands, unites, and says yes. Not through mere perversity do men run after it.