If you give appreciation to people, you win their goodwill.

The ideas gained by men before they are twenty-five are practically the only ideas they shall have in their lives.

Our view of the world is truly shaped by what we decide to hear.

When two minds of a high order, interested in kindred subjects, come together, their conversation is chiefly remarkable for the summariness of its allusions and the rapidity of its transitions. Before one of them is half through a sentence the other knows his meaning and replies. ... His mental lungs breathe more deeply, in an atmosphere more broad and vast.

Better risk loss of truth than chance of error--that is your faith-vetoer's exact position. He is actively playing his stake as much as the believer is; he is backing the field against the religious hypothesis, just as the believer is backing the religious hypothesis against the field.

Procrastination is attitude's natural assassin. There's nothing so fatiguing as an uncompleted task

Evil is a disease; and worry over disease is itself an additional form of disease, which only adds to the original complaint.