It is common sense to take a method and try it. If it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something.
Sometimes you can't see yourself clearly until you see yourself through the eyes of others.
I lived what most people call the good life. I was happy, but deep inside I always felt that, with the short amount of time we are given to live and love in this world, we spend too much time loving things instead of people.
Before you do anything, think. If you do something to try and impress someone, to be loved, accepted or even to get someone's attention, stop and think. So many people are busy trying to create an image, they die in the process.
With or without religion, you would have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil things, that takes religion.
You couldn't even prove the White House staff sane beyond a reasonable doubt.
We succeed only as we identify in life, or in war, or in anything else, a single overriding objective, and make all other considerations bend to that one objective.
Lack of money is no obstacle. Lack of an idea is an obstacle.
It is easier to exclude harmful passions than to rule them, and to deny them admittance than to control them after they have been admitted.