When thoughts do not neutralize an undesirable emotion, action will.

Each of us is in fact what he is almost exclusively by virtue of his imitative-ness.

Our acts of voluntary attending, as brief and fitful as they are, are nevertheless momentous and critical, determining us, as they do, to higher or lower destinies.

The history of philosophy is to a great extent that of a certain clash of human temperaments.

The greatest weapon we have to combat stress is the ability to choose our thoughts.

Smitten as we are with the vision of social righteousness, a God indifferent to everything but adulation, and full of partiality for his individual favorites, lacks an essential element of largeness.

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.