We with our lives are like islands in the sea... The islands also hang together through the ocean's bottom.

Procrastination is attitude's natural assassin. There's nothing so fatiguing as an uncompleted task

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

Serious development of the personality begins at the closet door.

Fatalism, whose solving word in all crises of behavior is All striving is vain, will never reign supreme, for the impulse to take life strivingly is indestructible in the race. Moral creeds which speak to that impulse will be widely successful in spite of inconsistency, vagueness, and shadowy determination of expectancy. Man needs a rule for his will, and will invent one if one be not given him.

If you care enough for a result, you will most certainly attain it.

To suggest personal will and effort to one all sicklied o'er with the sense of irremediable impotence is to suggest the most impossible of things. What he craves is to be consoled in his very powerlessness, to feel that the spirit of the universe recognizes and secures him, all decaying and failing as he is.