Do not stop thinking of life as an adventure. You have no security unless you live bravely, excitingly, imaginatively.

Old age is no place for sissies.

There are few things more pathetic than those who have lost their curiosity and sense of adventure, and who no longer care to learn.

I roamed the countryside searching for answers to things I did not understand.

A man, to carry on a successful business, must have imagination. He must see things as in a vision, a dream of the whole thing. A man can cultivate this faculty only by an appreciation for the finer things in life.

Only in men's imagination does every truth find an effective and undeniable existence. Imagination, not invention, is the supreme master of art as of life.

The heights by great men reached and kept Where not attained by sudden flight, But they, while their companions slept, Were toiling upward in the night.

Man is not worried by real problems so much as by his imagined anxieties about real problems.

Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not; a sense of humor to console him for what he is.

A man may imagine things that are false, but he can only understand things that are true.

The use of traveling is to regulate imagination by reality, and instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they are.

All the breaks you need in life wait within your imagination, imagination is the workshop of your mind, capable of turning mind energy into accomplishment and wealth.

The longer I live, the more beautiful life becomes.

Fortunately psychoanalysis is not the only way to resolve inner conflicts. Life itself still remains a very effective therapist.

Lost, yesterday, somewhere between sunrise and sunset, two golden hours each set with sixty diamond minutes. No reward is offered, for they are gone forever.

If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he as imagined, he will meet with success unexpectedly in common hours.

There are a thousand excuses for failure but never a good reason.

In my many years I have come to a conclusion that one is useless man is a shame, two is a law firm, and three or more is a congress.

The great decisions of human life have as a rule far more to do with the instincts and other mysterious unconscious factors than with conscious will and well-meaning reasonableness.

Appearances to the mind are of four kinds. Things either are what they appear to be; or they neither are, nor appear to be; or they are, and do not appear to be; or they are not, and yet appear to be. Rightly to aim in all these cases is the wise man’s task.

One of the greatest pains to human nature is the pain of a new idea.

I am quite sure now that often, very often, in matters concerning religion and politics a man's reasoning powers are not above the monkey's.

You wouldn't worry so much about what others think of you if you realized how seldom they do.

Nothing exists from whose nature some effect does not follow.

Bless a thing and it will bless you. Curse it and it will curse you. . . If you bless a situation, it has no power to hurt you, and even if it is troublesome for a time, it will gradually fade out, if you sincerely bless it.

It is not because men's desires are strong that they act ill; it is because their consciences are weak.

Men who reject the responsibility of thought and reason can only exist as parasites on the thinking of others.

I do not fix problems. I fix my thinking. Then problems fix themselves.

To fly as fast as thought, you must begin by knowing that you have already arrived.

Those who are free of resentful thoughts surely find peace.

One day we will learn that the heart can never be totally right when the head is totally wrong.