If you believe that feeling bad or worrying long enough will change a past or future event, then you are residing on another planet with a different reality system.

In teaching, you must simply work your pupil into such a state of interest in what you are going to teach him that every other object of attention is banished from his mind; then reveal it to him so impressively that he will remember the occasion to his dying day; and finally fill him with devouring curiosity to know what the next steps in connection with the subject are.

When we of the so-called better classes are scared as men were never scared in history at material ugliness and hardship; when we put off marriage until our house can be artistic, and quake at the thought of having a child without a bank-account and doomed to manual labor, it is time for thinking men to protest against so unmanly and irreligious a state of opinion.

You may not get everything you dream about, but you will never get anything you don't dream about.

I am tired of the position of the dried-up critic and doubter. The believer is the true full man. (from a biography of James by Robert D. Richardson)

Our ideas must agree with realities, be such realities concrete or abstract

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.