The worst thing that can happen to a good teacher is to get a bad conscience about her profession because she feels herself hopeless as a psychologist.

Acceptance of what has happened is the first step to overcoming the consequences of any misfortune.

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

Democracy is still upon its trial. The civic genius of our people is its only bulwark.

There is an organic affinity between joyousness and tenderness, and their companionship in the saintly life need in no way occasion surprise.

We can change our circumstances by a mere change of our attitude.

You make a great, very great mistake, if you think that psychology, being the science of the mind's laws, is something from which you can deduce definite programmes and schemes and methods of instruction for immediate schoolroom use.