The greatest weapon against stress is our ability to choose one thought over another.

It is our attitude at the beginning of a difficult task which, more than anything else, will affect its successful outcome.

There are two lives, the natural and the spiritual, and we must lose the one before we can participate in the other.

Men's activities are occupied into ways -- in grappling with external circumstances and in striving to set things at one in their own topsy-turvy mind.

Serious development of the personality begins at the closet door.

It seems the natural thing for us to listen whilst the Europeans talk.

The first effect of the mind growing cultivated is that processes once multiple get to be performed in a single act. Lazarus has called this the progressive "condensation" of thought. ... Steps really sink from sight. An advanced thinker sees the relations of his topics is such masses and so instantaneously that when he comes to explain to younger minds it is often hard ... Bowditch, who translated and annotated Laplace's Méchanique Céleste, said that whenever his author prefaced a proposition by the words "it is evident," he knew that many hours of hard study lay before him.