William James — "The ultimate test for us of what a truth means is the conduct it dictates or ins…"

"A man's religion is the most important thing about him."

"The tears of the world are a constant quantity. For every one who begins to weep, somewhere else another stops. The same is true of the laughter."

"Habit is the enormous fly-wheel of society, its most precious conservative agent."

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

"The philosophy which is so important in each of us is not a technical matter; it is our more or less dumb sense of what life honestly and deeply means."