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

A chain is no stronger than its weakest link, and life is after all a chain.

Real culture lives by sympathies and admirations, not by dislikes and disdains; under all misleading wrappings it pounces unerringly upon the human core.

Most unhappiness is caused because people listen to themselves... instead of talking to themselves.

Our beliefs and our attention are the same fact.

As the brain-changes are continuous, so do all these consciousnesses melt into each other like dissolving views. Properly they are but one protracted consciousness, one unbroken stream.

... religious experience, as we have studied it, cannot be cited as unequivocally supporting the infinitist belief. The only thingthat it unequivocally testifies to is that we can experience union with something larger than ourselves and in that union find our greatest peace.