Effort is the one strictly undervalued and original contribution we make to this world.

Success or failure depends more upon attitude than upon capacity successful men act as though they have accomplished or are enjoying something. Soon it becomes a reality. Act, look, feel successful, conduct yourself accordingly, and you will be amazed at the positive results.

Tension is a habit. Relaxing is a habit. Bad habits can be broken, good habits formed.

With mere good intentions hell is proverbially paved.

As a rule reading fiction is as hard to me as trying to hit a target by hurling feathers at it. I need resistance to celebrate!

It is as if there were in the human consciousness a sense of reality, a feeling of objective presence, a perception of what we may call something there, more deep and more general than any of the special and particular senses by which the current psychology supposes existent realities to be originally revealed.

The total possible consciousness may be split into parts which co-exist but mutually ignore each other.