Men's activities are occupied into ways -- in grappling with external circumstances and in striving to set things at one in their own topsy-turvy mind.

Our faith is faith in someone else's faith, and in the greatest matters this is most the case.

We forget that every good that is worth possessing must be paid for in strokes of daily effort. We postpone and postpone, until those smiling possibilities are dead.

If you care enough for a result, you will most certainly attain it.

Events are influenced by our very great desires.

Happiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply, to enjoy simply, to think freely, to risk life, to be needed. which give happiness. Thomas Jefferson We never enjoy perfect happiness; our most fortunate successes are mingled with sadness; some anxieties always perplex the reality of our satisfaction.

The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind.

It is our attitude at the beginning of a difficult task which, more than anything else, will affect its successful outcome.

If you want a trait, act as if you already have the trait.

What every genuine philosopher (every genuine man, in fact) craves most is praise -- although the philosophers generally call it ''recognition''!