No matter how full a reservoir of maxims one may possess, and no matter how good one's sentiments may be, if one has not taken advantage of every concrete opportunity to act, one's character may remain entirely unaffected for the better.

The philosophy which is so important in each of us is not a technical matter; it is our more or less dumb sense of what life honestly and deeply means. It is only partly got from books; it is our individual way of just seeing and feeling the total push and pressure of the cosmos.

The great use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it.

To kill time is not murder, it's suicide.

The good or bad is not in the circumstance, but only in the mind...that encounters it.

You must bring out of each word its practical cash-value, set it at work within the stream of your experience.

We and God have business with each other, and in opening ourselves to God's influence our deepest destiny is fulfilled.