Compared with what we ought to be, we are only half awake. Our fires are damped, our drafts are checked. We are making use of only a small part of our possible mental and physical resources.

It is as important to cultivate your silence power as your word power.

Volition . . . takes place only when there are a number of conflicting systems of ideas, and depends on our having a complex field of consciousness.

Every way of classifying a thing is but a way of handling it for some particular purpose.

The most natively interesting object to a man is his own personal self and its fortunes. We accordingly see that the moment a thing becomes connected with the fortunes of the self, it forthwith becomes an interesting thing.

Everybody should do at least two things each day that he hates to do, just for practice.

Once you accept an idea, it's an idea whose time has come.