". . .the moral flabbiness born of the exclusive worship of the bitch-goddess Success. That --with the squalid cash interpretation put on the word success--is our national disease."
- William James [Will] Durant (1885 - 1981)

"No man who is in a hurry is quite civilized."
- William James [Will] Durant (1885 - 1981)

"A great many people think they are thinking when they merely rearranging their prejudices."
- William James [Will] Durant (1885-1981)

"Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does."
- William James [Will] Durant (1885-1981)

"An idea, to be suggestive, must come to the individual with the force of a revelation."
- William James [Will] Durant (1885-1981)

"Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact."
- William James [Will] Durant (1885-1981)

"Genius. . . Means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an unhabitual way."
- William James [Will] Durant (1885-1981)

"If merely "feeling good" could decide, drunkenness would be the supremely valid experience."
- William James [Will] Durant (1885-1981)