To neglect the wise sayings of great thinkers is to deny ourselves the truest education.

Whenever you're in conflict with someone, there is one factor that can make the difference between damaging your relationship and deepening it. That factor is attitude.

Most people live, whether physically, intellectually or morally, in a very restricted circle of their potential being.

Better risk loss of truth than chance of error--that is your faith-vetoer's exact position. He is actively playing his stake as much as the believer is; he is backing the field against the religious hypothesis, just as the believer is backing the religious hypothesis against the field.

Emotional occasions, especially violent ones, are extremely potent in precipitating mental rearrangements. The sudden and explosive ways in which love, jealousy, guilt, fear, remorse, or anger can seize upon one are known to everybody. . . . And emotions that come in this explosive way seldom leave things as they found them.

The desire to gain wealth and the fear to lose it are our chief breeders of cowardice and propagators of corruption.

Most people never run far enough on their first wind to find out they've got a second.