All Quotes

I still use a typewriter from time to time, but because I can't type as well as I used to, I really don't use one very much. ”

Half the pleasure of solitude comes from having with us some friend to whom we can say how sweet solitude is. ”

A dislike of death is no proof of the want of religion. The instincts of nature shrink from it, for no creature can like its own dissolution. But though death is not desired, the result of it may be, for dying to the Christian is the way to life eternal. ”

The history of philosophy is to a great extent that of a certain clash of human temperaments. ”

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

Whenever you're in conflict with someone, there is one factor that can make the difference between damaging your relationship and deepening it. That factor is attitude. ”

If you believe that feeling bad or worrying long enough will change a past or future event, then you are residing on another planet with a different reality system. ”

Whatever universe a professor believes in must at any rate be a universe that lends itself to lengthy discourse. A universe definable in two sentences is something for which the professorial intellect has no use. No faith in anything of that cheap kind! ”

The sway of alcohol over mankind is unquestionably due to its power to stimulate the mystical faculties of human nature, usually crushed to earth by the cold facts and dry criticisms of the sober hour. ”

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