We never fully grasp the import of any true statement until we have a clear notion of what the opposite untrue statement would be.

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.

Positive images of the future are a powerful and magnetic force... They draw us on and energize us, give us courage and will to take on important initiatives. Negative images of the future also have a magnetism. They pull the spirit downward in the path of despair.

Faith is one of the forces by which men live, and the total absence of it means collapse

Both thought and feeling are determinants of conduct, and the same conduct may be determined either by feeling or by thought.

How many of us persist in a precipitate course which, but for a moment of heedlessness we might never have entered upon, simply because we hate to change our minds.

To improve the golden moment of opportunity, and catch the good that is within our reach, is the great art of life.