"... if we take the universe of..." - Quote by William James

“Experience, as we know, has a way of boiling over, and making us correct our present formulas.”

“Tell him to live by yes and no - yes to everything good, no to everything bad.”

“The squalid cash interpretation put on the word success — is our national disease.”

“You need not fear to handle the truth roughly. She is no invalid.”

“History with its flickering lamp stumbles along the trail of the past, trying to reconstruct its scenes, to revive its echoes, and kindle with pale gleams the passion of former days. What is the worth of all this? The only guide to a man is his conscience; the only shield to his memory is the rectitude and sincerity of his actions. It is very imprudent to walk through life without this shield, because we are so often mocked by the failure of our hopes and the upsetting of our calculations; but with this shield, however the fates may play, we march always in the ranks of honor.”

“Truth is handsomer than the affectation of love. Your goodness must have some edge to it, else it is none.”

“We are all alone, born alone, die alone, and - in spite of True Romance magazines - we shall all someday look back on our lives and see that, in spite of our company, we were alone the whole way.”

“Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living, it's a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope, and that enables you to laugh at life's realities.”

“Dreaming about being an actress, is more exciting then being one.”