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.

To be fertile in hypotheses is the first perquisite of creativity and to be willing to throw them away the moment experience contradicts them is the next.

The worst thing that can happen to a good teacher is to get a bad conscience about her profession because she feels herself hopeless as a psychologist.

What every genuine philosopher (every genuine man, in fact) craves most is praise although the philosophers generally call it recognition!

Romeo wants Juliet as the filings want the magnet; and if no obstacles intervene he moves towards her by as straight a line as they. But Romeo and Juliet, if a wall be built between them, do not remain idiotically pressing their faces against its opposite sides like the magnet and the filings with the card. Romeo soon finds a circuitous way, by scaling the wall or otherwise, of touching Juliet's lips directly. With the filings the path is fixed; whether it reaches the end depends on accidents. With the lover it is the end which is fixed, the path may be modified indefinitely.

There can be no final truth in ethics any more than in physics, until the last man has had his experience and said his say.

Democracy is still upon its trial. The civic genius of our people is its only bulwark.