True is the name for whatever idea starts the verification process, useful is the name for its completed function in experience

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.

A man without decision can never be said to belong to himself he is as a wave of the sea or a feather in the air which every breeze blows about.

A strong memory, concentration, imagination, and a strong will is required to become a great Chess player

God: personified incomprehensibility.

No man should be allowed to be the President who does not understand hogs, or hasn't been around a manure pile.

Sometimes the Bible in the hands of one man is worse than a whiskey bottle in the hands of another.

My job is to do what's right. And that's what I'm going to try and do.

I've described my usual writing process as scrambling from peak to peak on inspiration through foggy valleys of despised logic. Inspiration is better when you can get it.

God is like a shitty girlfriend.

Life comes in clusters, clusters of solitude, then a cluster when there is hardly time to breathe.

When scattered clouds are resting on the bosoms of hills, it seems as if one might climb into the heavenly region, earth being so intermixed with sky, and gradually transformed into it.