“This must be Thursday,' said Arthur to himself, sinking low over his beer. 'I never could get the hang of Thursdays.” 

“You live and learn. At any rate, you live.” 

“A learning experience is one of those things that says, 'You know that thing you just did? Don't do that.” 

“I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be.” 

I find the difference, for me, between having no money and having quite a bit is that the bills get bigger. And that's it. The lifestyle doesn't change.

“The quality of any advice anybody has to offer has to be judged against the quality of life they actually lead.” 

“A life that is burdened with expectations is a heavy life. Its fruit is sorrow and disappointment.” 

Anything that is in the world when you’re born is normal and ordinary and is just a natural part of the way the world works.

“I'd far rather be happy than right any day.” 

“He felt that his whole life was some kind of dream and he sometimes wondered whose it was and whether they were enjoying it.” 

“The best use of life is to spend it for something that outlasts it.” 

“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.” 

“If this life is not a real fight, in which something is eternally gained for the universe by success, it is no better than a game of private theatricals from which one may withdraw at will. But it feels like a real fight.” 

“It is only by risking our persons from one hour to another that we live at all.” 

“The strenuous life tastes better” 

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

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

“No fact in human nature is more characteristic than its willingness to live on a chance. The existence of the chance makes the difference… between a life of which the keynote is resignation and a life of which the keynote is hope.” 

“Most people live in a very restricted circle of their potential being. They make use of a very small portion of their possible consciousness, and of their soul's resources in general, much like a man who, out of his whole organism should get into a habit of using and moving only his little finger.” 

“Our intelligence cannot wall itself up alive, like a pupa in a chrysalis. It must at any cost keep on speaking terms with the universe that engendered it.” 

“Our colleges ought to have lit up in us a lasting relish for a better kind of man, a loss of appetite for mediocrities.” 

“Psychology is the science of mental life” 

“The first thing the intellect does with an object is to class it along with something else. But any object that is infinitely important to us and awakens our devotion feels to us also as if it must be sui generis and unique. Probably a crab would be filled with a sense of personal outrage if it could hear us class it without ado or apology as a crustacean, and thus dispose of it. "I am no such thing," it would say; "I am MYSELF, MYSELF alone.” 

“To suggest personal will and effort to one all sicklied o'er with the sense of irremediable impotence is to suggest the most impossible of things. What he craves is to be consoled in his very powerlessness, to feel that the spirit of the universe recognizes and secures him, all decaying and failing as he is.”