He who refuses to embrace a unique opportunity loses the prize as surely as if he had failed.
Act the part and you will become the part.
...as I apprehend the Buddhist doctrine of karma, I agree in principle with that.
We are spinning our own fates, good or evil, and never to be undone. Every smallest stroke of virtue or of vice leaves its never so little scar. ...Nothing we ever do is, in strict scientific literalness, wiped out.
The ultimate test of what a truth means is the conduct it dictates or inspires.
Volition . . . takes place only when there are a number of conflicting systems of ideas, and depends on our having a complex field of consciousness.