I am tired of the position of the dried-up critic and doubter. The believer is the true full man. (from a biography of James by Robert D. Richardson)

Most people live, whether physically, intellectually or morally, in a very restricted circle of their potential being.

If you want a confidence, act as if you already have it. Try the "as if" technique.

When a thing is new, people say: ‘It is not true.’ Later, when its truth becomes obvious, they say: ‘It is not important.’ Finally, when its importance cannot be denied, they say: ‘Anyway, it is not new.

Feed the growing human being, feed him with the sort of experience for which from year to year he shows a natural craving, and he will develop in adult life a sounder sort of mental tissue, even though he may seem to be 'wasting' a great deal of his growing time, in the eyes of those for whom the only channels of learning are books and verbally communicated information.

The war against war is going to be no holiday excursion or camping party.

For morality life is a war, and the service of the highest is a sort of cosmic patriotism which also calls for volunteers.