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

Man lives in only one small room of the enormous house of his consciousness.

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.

It is your friends who make your world.

Once a decision is reached, stop worrying and start working.

You must bring out of each word its practical cash-value, set it at work within the stream of your experience.

... A rule of thinking which would absolutely prevent me from acknowledging certain kinds of truth if those ... truths were really there, would be an irrational rule.