If you give appreciation to people, you win their goodwill. But more important than that, practicing this philosophy has made a different person of me.

We must be careful not to confuse data with the abstractions we use to analyse them.

Procrastination is attitude's natural assassin. There's nothing so fatiguing as an uncompleted task

What interest, zest, or excitement can there be in achieving the right way, unless we are enabled to feel that the wrong way is also a possible and a natural way, nay, more, a menacing and an imminent way? And what sense can there be in condemning ourselves for taking the wrong way, unless we need have done nothing of the sort, unless the right way was open to us as well? I cannot understand the willingness to act, no matter how we feel, without the belief that acts are really good and bad.

Genius... means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an unhabitual way.

An educated memory depends on an organized system of associations; and its goodness depends on two of their peculiarities: first, on the persistency of the associations; and, second, on their number.

The strenuous life tastes better