Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.

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

Volition . . . takes place only when there are a number of conflicting systems of ideas, and depends on our having a complex field of consciousness.

Our acts of voluntary attending, as brief and fitful as they are, are nevertheless momentous and critical, determining us, as they do, to higher or lower destinies.

Real servants don't try to use God for their purposes. They let God use them for His purposes.

If the topic be highly abstract, show its nature by concrete examples. If it be unfamiliar, trace some point of analogy in it with the known. If it be inhuman, make it figure as part of a story. If it be difficult, couple its acquisition with some prospect of personal gain. Above all things, make sure that it shall run through certain inner changes, since no unvarying object can possibly hold the mental field for long.

A man may not achieve everything he has dreamed, but he will never achieve anything great without having dreamed it first.