The thinker philosophizes as the lover loves. Even were the consequences not only useless but harmful, he must obey his impulse.

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.

There is the darkness that frightens, the darkness that soothes, the darkness that is restful.

Everything bows to success even grammar.

It was no human life that was involved in the matter, for that only is a human life which is a humane life.

Hitler showed the evil that could be done by the art of rhetoric. Churchill showed how it could help to save humanity.

The British were sporting. They would accept a fight under almost all conditions.

Mystery is made a convenient Cover for absurdity.

I don't like no confusion.

Now it is characteristic of play that one plays without reason and there must be no reason for it. Play is its own good reason.

There are two things that are important in politics. The first is money and I can’t remember what the second one is.

I live in a very small town and now that I've closed down my studio, I'm working at home.