Man's chief difference from the brutes lies in the exuberant excess of his subjective propensities. Prune his extravagance, sober him, and you undo him.

Truth lives, in fact, for the most part on a credit system

If you give appreciation to people, you win their goodwill. But more important than that, practicing this philosophy has made a different person of me.

Belief creates the actual fact.

Language is the most imperfect and expensive means yet discovered for communicating thought.

If you give appreciation to people, you win their goodwill.

What interest, zest, or excitement can there be in achieving the right way, unless we are enabled to feel that the wrong way is also a possible and a natural way, nay, more, a menacing and an imminent way? And what sense can there be in condemning ourselves for taking the wrong way, unless we need have done nothing of the sort, unless the right way was open to us as well? I cannot understand the willingness to act, no matter how we feel, without the belief that acts are really good and bad.