The first lecture in psychology that I ever heard was the first I ever gave.

... I am the same personal being who in old times upon the Earth had those experiences.

What a teacher needs to know about psychology "might almost be written on the palm of one's hand."

Divinity lies all around us, but society remains too hidebound to accept that fact...The mother sea and the fountain-head of all religions lies in the mystical experiences of the individual.

The same is true of Love, and the instinctive desire to please those whom we love. The teacher who succeeds in getting herself loved by the pupils will obtain results which one of a more forbidding temperament finds it impossible to secure.

Good-humor is a philosophic state of mind; it seems to say to Nature that we take her no more seriously than she takes us. I maintain that one should always talk of philosophy with a smile.

Mankind's common instinct for reality has always held the world to be essentially a theatre for heroism.