Effort is the one strictly undervalued and original contribution we make to this world.

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.

He fancied himself on his humanity towards animals, as so many people do who are inhuman to their fellow men...

She was a prism through with sadness could be divided into its infinite spectrum

The paperback is very interesting but I find it will never replace the hardcover book - it makes a very poor doorstop.

Nobody has been held accountable for the Bytyqi murders. Those in command of the camp and the forces operating there have never been charged.

Americans have mastered the art of living with the unacceptable.

Every other creature on the planet is doing its best. Only human beings hesitate about that.

Mathematics is the science of patterns.

Fate, Chance, God’s Will — we all try to account for our lives somehow. What are the chances that two raindrops, flung from the heavens, will merge on a windowpane? Gotta be Fate.

The conflict with Islam has, after all, existed throughout European history.

Less judgment than wit is more sail than ballast. Yet it must be confessed that wit given an edge to sense, and recommends it extremely.