There is a law in psychology that if you form a picture in your mind of what you would like to be, and you keep and hold that picture there long enough, you will soon become exactly as you have been thinking.

There is an organic affinity between joyousness and tenderness, and their companionship in the saintly life need in no way occasion surprise.

The work that leads to a doctor's degree is a constant temptation to sacrifice one's growth as a man to one's growth as a specialist.

... the intellect, everywhere invasive, shows everywhere its shallowing effect.

That which is most personal, is most interesting.

Once a decision is reached, stop worrying and start working.

It does not follow, because our ancestors made so many errors of fact and mixed them with their religion, that we should therefore leave off being religious at all. By being religious we establish ourselves in possession of ultimate reality at the only points at which reality is given us to guard. Our responsible concern is with our private destiny, after all.