The prescription is that the subject must be made to show new aspects of itself; to prompt new questions; in a word, to change. From an unchanging subject the attention inevitably wanders away.

The mind, in short, works on the data it receives very much as a sculptor works on his block of stone. In a sense the statue stoodthere from eternity. But there were a thousand different ones beside it, and the sculptor alone is to thank for having extricated this one from the rest.

All of our life is but a mass of small habits - practical, emotional, intellectual and spiritual - that bear us irresistibly toward our destiny.

An idea will infect another with its own emotional interest when they have become both associated together into any sort of a mental total.

Tell him to live by yes and no - yes to everything good, no to everything bad.

Impulse without reason is enough, and reason without impulse is a poor makeshift.

Man alone of all the creatures of earth can change his own pattern. Man alone is the architect of his own destiny.