It is as important to cultivate your silence power as your word power.

The greatest empiricists among us are only empiricists on reflection: when left to their instincts, they dogmatize like infallible popes.

The greatest weapon we have to combat stress is the ability to choose our thoughts.

If, then, you wish to insure the interest of your pupils, there is only one way to do it; and that is to make certain that they have something in their minds to attend with, when you begin to talk. That something can consist in nothing but a previous lot of ideas already interesting in themselves, and of such a nature that the incoming novel objects which you present can dovetail into them and form with them some kind of a logically associated or systematic whole.

Organization and method mean much, but contagious human characters mean more in a university.

Religion . . . shall mean for us the feelings, acts and experiences of individual men in their solitude.

Truth in our ideas means their power to work.