The deepest longing in the human breast is the desire for appreciation.

I take it that no man is educated who has never dallied with the thought of suicide.

The mind, in short, works on the data it receives very much as the sculptor works on his block of stone.

How many of us persist in a precipitate course which, but for a moment of heedlessness we might never have entered upon, simply because we hate to change our minds.

So to feel brave, act as if we were brave, use all our will to that end...and a courage-fit will very likely replace the fit of fear.

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

Whenever you're in conflict with someone, there is one factor that can make the difference between damaging your relationship and deepening it. That factor is attitude.