There is no more miserable human being than one in whom nothing is habitual but indecision.

Habit is thus the enormous fly-wheel of society, its most precious conservative agent. It alone is what keeps us all within the bounds of ordinance, and saves …

Keep the faculty of effort alive in you by a little gratuitous exercise every day. That is, be systematically ascetic or heroic in little unnecessary points, d…

The concrete man has but one interest - to be right. That to him is the art of all arts, and all means are fair which help him to it.

I made the mistake of watching 'A.I.' on cable the week they showed it about 792 times, and I ended up watching it every time it was on.

An act has no ethical quality whatever unless it be chosen out of several all equally possible.

One will rarely err if extreme actions be ascribed to vanity, ordinary actions to habit, and mean actions to fear.