It is only by risking our persons from one hour to another that we live at all. And often enough our faith beforehand in an uncertified result is the only thing that makes the result come true.

Lets take full advantage of this discovery

Belief creates the actual fact.

The one who thinks over his experiences most, and weaves them into systematic relations with each other, will be the one with the best memory.

The faculty of voluntarily bringing back a wandering attention, over and over again, is the very root of judgment, character, and will... An education which should improve this faculty would be the education par excellence.

As there is no worse lie than a truth misunderstood by those who hear it, so reasonable arguments, challenges to magnanimity, and appeals to sympathy or justice, are folly when we are dealing with human crocodiles and boa-constrictors.

The greatest discovery of the 20th Century is that our attitude of mind determines our quality of life, not circumstances.