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.

If you give appreciation to people, you win their goodwill. But more important than that, practicing this philosophy has made a different person of me.

The love of life, at any and every level of development, is the religious impulse.

Psychology saves us from mistakes. It makes us more clear as to what we are about. We gain confidence in respect to any method which we are using as soon as we believe that it has theory as well as practice at its back.

That which is most personal, is most interesting.

Most men have a good memory for facts connected with their own pursuits.

We want all our friends to tell us our bad qualities; it is only the particular ass that does so whom we can't tolerate.