Knowledge about life is one thing; effective occupation of a place in life, with its dynamic currents passing through your being, is another.

It is as important to cultivate your silence power as your word power.

All our life, so far as it has definite form, is but a mass of habits.

The aim of a college education is to teach you to know a good man when you see one.

For I had often said that the best argument I knew for an immortal life was the existence of a man who deserved one as well as Child did.

When a superior intellect and a psychopathic temperament coalesce in the same individual, we have the best possible condition for the kind of effective genius that gets into the biographical dictionaries.

We with our lives are like islands in the sea... The islands also hang together through the ocean's bottom.