Human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind.

Equality is attainable as long as you are part of the majority.

Asceticism may be a mere expression of organic hardihood, disgusted with too much ease.

Mankind's common instinct for reality has always held the world to be essentially a theatre for heroism. In heroism, we feel, life's supreme mystery is hidden. We tolerate no one who has no capacity whatever for it in any direction. On the other hand, no matter what a man's frailties otherwise may be, if he be willing to risk death, and still more if he suffer it heroically, in the service he has chosen, the fact consecrates him forever.

The sovereign cure for worry is prayer.

Once you accept an idea, it's an idea whose time has come.

Seek out that particular mental attribute which makes you feel most deeply and vitally alive, along with which comes the inner voice which says, 'This is the real me,' and when you have found that attitude, follow it.