A man has as many social selves as there are individuals who recognize him.

The great thing, then, in all education, is to make our nervous system our ally instead of our enemy.

Act in earnest and you will become earnest in all you do.

Old-fashioned determinism was what we may call hard determinism. It did not shrink from such words as fatality, bondage of the will, necessitation, and the like. Nowadays, we have a soft determinism which abhors harsh words, and, repudiating fatality, necessity, and even predetermination, says that its real name is freedom; for freedom is only necessity understood, and bondage to the highest is identical with true freedom.

Each of us literally chooses, by his way of attending to things, what sort of universe he shall appear to himself to inhabit.

There is a law in psychology that if you form a picture in your mind of what you would like to be, and you keep and hold that picture there long enough, you will soon become exactly as you have been thinking.

Since you make evil or good by your own thoughts, it is your ruling of your thoughts which proves to be your principal concern.