[There are, in us] possibilities that take our breath away, and show a world wider than either physics or philistine ethics can imagine. Here is a world in which all is well, in spite of certain forms of death, death of hope, death of strength, death of responsibility, of fear and wrong, death of everything that paganism, naturalism and legalism pin their trust on.

We have to live today by what truth we can get today and be ready tomorrow to call it falsehood.

The great use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it." "This life is worth living, we can say, since it is what we make it." "Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.

To know psychology, therefore, is absolutely no guarantee that we shall be good teacher.

Keep the faculty of effort alive in you by a little gratuitous exercise every day.

Our belief at the beginning of a doubtful undertaking is the one thing that assures the successful outcome of any venture.

Pessimism leads to weakness. Optimism leads to power.