Genius... means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an unhabitual way.

How to gain, how to keep, how to recover happiness is in fact for most men at all times the secret motive of all they do, and of all they are willing to endure.

Human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind.

I will act as if what I do makes a difference.

It is only by risking our persons from one hour to another that we live at all. And often enough our faith beforehand in an uncertified result is the only thing that makes the result come true.

We have to live today by what truth we can get today and be ready tomorrow to call it falsehood.

These then are my last words to you. Be not afraid of life. Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.

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

Those thoughts are truth which guide us to beneficial interaction with sensible particulars as they occur, whether they copy these in advance or not.

Time itself comes in drops.

To be a real philosopher all that is necessary is to hate some one else's type of thinking.

To be conscious means not simply to be, but to be reported, known, to have awareness of one's being added to that being.

To be radical, an empiricism must neither admit into its constructions any element that is not directly experienced, nor exclude from them any element that is directly experienced.

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

To spend life for something which outlasts it.