“I don’t sing because I’m happy; I’m happy because I sing.”

An act has no ethical quality whatever unless it be chosen out of several all equally possible.

It is only by risking our persons from one hour to another that we live at all.

One of the greatest discoveries of our time is that a man can alter the state of their life by altering the state of their mind.

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

That which is most personal, is most interesting.

The greatest weapon against stress is our ability to choose one thought over another.

The sovereign cure for worry is prayer.

We forget that every good that is worth possessing must be paid for in strokes of daily effort.

The lunatic’s visions of horror are all drawn from the material of daily fact.

The most immutable barrier in nature is between one man’s thoughts and another’s.

A man with no philosophy in him is the most inauspicious and unprofitable of all possible social mates.

There is but one cause of human failure. And that is man’s lack of faith in his true Self.

Impulse without reason is enough, and reason without impulse is a poor makeshift.

When once a decision is reached and execution is the order of the day, dismiss absolutely all responsibility and care about the outcome.

To some of us the thought of God is like a sort of quiet music playing in the background of the mind.

Both thought and feeling are determinants of conduct, and the same conduct may be determined either by feeling or by thought.

Though boys throw stones at frogs in sport, the frogs do not die in sport, but in earnest.

A favorite pro-abortion tactic is to insist that the definition of when life begins is impossible; that the question is a theological or moral or philosophical one, anything but a scientific one.

The so-called Samaritan squirrel, which takes pity on the spider, and then the spider jumps on it and injects the paralyzing venom, while the squirrel remains bafflingly philosophical about the whole thing.

Letting a maximum number of views be heard regularly is not just a nice philosophical notion. It is the best way any society has yet discovered to detect maladjustments quickly.

The reason the Romans built their great paved highways was because they had such inconvenient footwear.

Certain issues in philosophy of science (having to do with observation and the definition of a theory’s empirical import) had beenmisconstrued as issues in philosophy of logic and of language. With respect to modality.

What orators lack in depth they make up for in length.

I have never known any distress that an hour’s reading did not relieve.