Between what a man calls me and what he simply calls mine the line is difficult to draw. We feel and act about certain things that are ours very much as we feel and act about ourselves.

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

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

The deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated.

Whenever two people meet, there are really six people present. There is each man as he sees himself, each man as the other person sees him, and each man as he really is.

Most unhappiness is caused because people listen to themselves... instead of talking to themselves.

The great use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it.

If you can change your mind, you can change your life.

Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.

You can alter your life by altering the state of your mind.

Real servants don't try to use God for their purposes. They let God use them for His purposes.

On the steps leading to a doorwas a scrub brush that was blue.I snatched it quick and ran for homebecause it was just the thing to chew.

All writers have roots they draw from - travel, work, family. My roots are in science and it is fertile ground for fiction.

The worst use that can be made of success is to boast of it.

I think there are different ways of being rigorous, and I am asking people to be as rigorous in their pleasure as in their criticism.

she’s mad, but she’s magic.

Groups tend to be more extreme than individuals.

There is no bitterness to be compared with that between two people who once loved.

I was curious what would happen.

I get up every morning with a desire to do some creative work. This desire is made of the same stuff as the sexual desire, the desire to make money, or any other desire.

The mere athlete becomes too much of a savage.