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

Seize the very first possible opportunity to act on every resolution you make, and on every emotional prompting you may experience in the direction of the habits you aspire to gain.

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

The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.

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

The war-function has grasped us so far; but the constructive interests may some day seem no less imperative, and impose on the individual a hardly lighter burden.

We, the lineal representatives of the successful enactors of one scene of slaughter after another, must, whatever more pacific virtues we may also possess, still carry about with us, ready at any moment to burst into flame, the smoldering and sinister traits of character by means of which they lived through so many massacres, harming others, but themselves unharmed.