The actual God of many Americans... is simply the current of American life.

The human mind is indeed a cave swarming with strange forms of life, most of them unconscious and unilluminated. Unless we can understand something as to how the motives that issue from this obscurity are generated, we can hardly hope to foresee or control them.

To have no heroes is to have no aspiration, to live on the momentum of the past, to be thrown back upon routine, sensuality, and the narrow self.

Prudence and compromise are necessary means, but every man should have an impudent end which he will not compromise.

To persuade is more trouble than to dominate, and the powerful seldom take this trouble if they can avoid it.

Form the habit of making decisions when your spirit is fresh...to let dark moods lead is like choosing cowards to command armies.

The most effective way of utilizing human energy is through an organized rivalry, which by specialization and social control is, at the same time, organized co-operation.