“The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.”

“To study the abnormal is the best way of understanding the normal.”

“In business for yourself, not by yourself.”

“The god whom science recognizes must be a God of universal laws exclusively, a God who does a wholesale, not a retail business. He cannot accommodate his processes to the convenience of individuals.”

“The aim of a college education is to teach you to know a good man when you see one.”

“Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of humor is just common sense, dancing.”

“Belief creates the actual fact.”

“If you want a quality, act as if you already had it.”

“Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.”

“The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitudes.”

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

“This life is worth living, we can say, since it is what we make it.”

“A chain is no stronger than its weakest link, and life is after all a chain.”

“To change ones life: Start immediately. Do it flamboyantly.”

“Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.”

“Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.”

“Most people never run far enough on their first wind to find out they've got a second.”

“Success or failure depends more upon attitude than upon capacity successful men act as though they have accomplished or are enjoying something. Soon it becomes a reality. Act, look, feel successful, conduct yourself accordingly, and you will be amazed at the positive results.”

“Individuality is founded in feeling and the recesses of feeling, the darker, blinder strata of character, are the only places in the world in which we catch real fact in the making, and directly perceive how events happen, and how work is actually done.”