Between what a man calls me and what he simply calls mine the line is difficult to draw. We feel and act about certain things that are ours very much as we feel and act about ourselves.

The prevalent fear of poverty among the educated classes is the worst moral disease from which our civilization suffers.

Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.

True is the name for whatever idea starts the verification process, useful is the name for its completed function in experience

No living person is sunk so low as not to be imitated by somebody.

The prescription is that the subject must be made to show new aspects of itself; to prompt new questions; in a word, to change. From an unchanging subject the attention inevitably wanders away.

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