If you develop the absolute sense of certainty that powerful beliefs provide, then you can get yourself to accomplish virtually anything, including those things that other people are certain are impossible. William Lyon Phelps More Quotes by William Lyon Phelps More Quotes From William Lyon Phelps If happiness truly consisted in physical ease and freedom from care, then the happiest individual would not be either a man or a woman; it would be, I think, an American cow. William Lyon Phelps woman man freedom happiness Whenever it is possible, a boy should choose some occupation which he should do even if he did not need the money. William Lyon Phelps choose boy need money The belief that youth is the happiest time of life is founded on a fallacy. The happiest person is the person who thinks the most interesting thoughts, and we grow happier as we grow older. William Lyon Phelps thoughts youth time life If I didn't start painting, I would have raised chickens. William Lyon Phelps would start painting chickens