Modern man . . . has not ceased to be credulous . . . the need to believe haunts him.

Since belief is measured by action, he who forbids us to believe religion to be true, necessarily also forbids us to act as we should if we did believe it to be true.

With no attempt there can be no failure; with no failure no humiliation.

Thoughts become perception, perception becomes reality. Alter your thoughts, alter your reality.

The exercise of voluntary attention in the schoolroom must therefore be counted one of the most important points of training that take place there; and the first-rate teacher, by the keenness of the remoter interests which he is able to awaken, will provide abundant opportunities for its occurrence.

First... a new theory is attacked as absurd; then it is admitted to be true, but obvious and insignificant; finally it is seen to be so important that its adversaries claim that they themselves discovered it.

Need and struggle are what excite and inspire us; our hour of triumph is what brings the void.