"Most people never run far enough on their first wind to find out theya€?ve got a second. Give your dreams all youa€?ve got and youa€?ll be amazed at the energy that comes out of you!!"

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

"There is only one thing that a philosopher can be relied on to do, and that is, to contradict other philosophers."

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

"The great thing, then, in all education, is to make our nervous system our ally instead of our enemy."

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

"Who you are isn't tied solely to what you say, even though it may feel that way to you now."

"Philosophy consists very largely of one philosopher arguing that all others are jackasses. He usually proves it, and I should add that he also usually proves that he is one himself."

"This is patently absurd; but whoever wishes to become a philosopher must learn not to be frightened by absurdities."

"One cannot conceive anything so strange and so implausible that it has not already been said by one philosopher or another."

"There is nothing so absurd but some philosopher has said it."

"The point of philosophy is to start with something so simple as not to seem worth stating, and to end with something so paradoxical that no one will believe it."