It is well for the world that in most of us by the age of thirty the character has set like plaster

It is well for the world that in most of us by the age of thirty the character has set like plaster and will never soften again.

Author: William James

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Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.

Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.

To be a real philosopher all that is necessary is to hate someone else's type of thinking.

Everybody should do at least two things each day that he hates to do, just for practice.

Someday you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again.

They say I'm old-fashioned, and live in the past, but sometimes I think progress progresses too fast!

You’re never too old, too wacky, too wild, to pick up a book and read to a child.

Age is whatever you think it is. You are as old as you think you are.