The essence of genius is to know what to overlook.

Whenever you're in conflict with someone, there is one factor that can make the difference between damaging your relationship and deepening it. That factor is attitude.

The prevalent fear of poverty among the educated classes is the worst moral disease from which our civilization suffers.

The great thing, then, in all education, is to make our nervous system our ally instead of our enemy.

The pragmatist turns away from abstraction and insufficiency, from verbal solutions, from bad a priori reasons, from fixed principles, closed systems, and pretended absolutes and origins. He turns toward concreteness and adequacy, towards facts, towards action, and towards power.

Religion, whatever it is, is a man's total reaction upon life.

I know that you, ladies and gentlemen, have a philosophy, each and all of you, and that the most interesting and important thing about you is the way in which it determines the perspective in your several worlds.