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

To change ones life: Start immediately. Do it flamboyantly.

We all have a lifelong habit of inferiority to our full self..."

Out of time we cut 'days' and 'nights', 'summers' and 'winters.' We say what, each part of the sensible continuum is, and all these abstract whats are concepts. The intelletual life of man consists almost wholly in his substitution of a conceptual order for the persceptual order in which his experience originally comes.

It is wrong always, everywhere, and for everyone, to believe anything upon insufficient evidence.

Emotional occasions, especially violent ones, are extremely potent in precipitating mental rearrangements. The sudden and explosive ways in which love, jealousy, guilt, fear, remorse, or anger can seize upon one are known to everybody. . . . And emotions that come in this explosive way seldom leave things as they found them.

[Religion is] the attempt to be in harmony with an unseen order of things.