The deepest hunger in human beings is the desire to be appreciated.

What a teacher needs to know about psychology "might almost be written on the palm of one's hand."

Few people have definitely articulated philosophies of their own. But almost everyone has his own peculiar sense of a certain total character in the universe, and of the inadequacy of fully to match it [to] the peculiar systems that he knows.

To study the abnormal is the best way of understanding the normal.

Truth lives, in fact, for the most part on a credit system

[Religion is] the attempt to be in harmony with an unseen order of things.

Feed the growing human being, feed him with the sort of experience for which from year to year he shows a natural craving, and he will develop in adult life a sounder sort of mental tissue, even though he may seem to be 'wasting' a great deal of his growing time, in the eyes of those for whom the only channels of learning are books and verbally communicated information.