What holds attention determines action.

The absolute things, the last things, the overlapping things, are the truly philosophic concerns; all superior minds feel seriously about them, and the mind with the shortest views is simply the mind of the more shallow man.

The greatest weapon we have to combat stress is the ability to choose our thoughts.

To give up pretensions is as blessed a relief as to get them ratified.

Woe to him whose beliefs play fast and loose with the order which realities follow in his experience; they will lead him nowhere or else make false connections

Most people never run far enough on their first wind to find out they've got a second.

We with our lives are like islands in the sea, or like trees in the forest... But the trees also commingle their roots in the darkness underground.