Loyalty to petrified opinion never yet broke a chain or freed a human soul. Nothing contributes so much to tranquilizing the mind as a steady purpose a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye. Since I was twenty-four there never was any vagueness in my plans or ideas as to what God's work was for me. The great use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it. William James You have to know what you want to get.
Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness.
It is not attained through self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose. All men should try to learn before they die what they are running from, and to, and why. As Miss America, my goal is to bring peace to the entire world and then to get my own apartment. The very purpose of existence is to reconcile the glowing opinion we hold of ourselves with the appalling things that other people think about us. The real distinction is between those who adapt their purposes to reality and those who seek to mould reality in the light of their purposes.