Democracy is still upon its trial. The civic genius of our people is its only bulwark.

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

The greatest weapon against stress is our ability to choose one thought over another.

The greatest discovery of the 20th Century is that our attitude of mind determines our quality of life, not circumstances.

To suggest personal will and effort to one all sicklied o'er with the sense of irremediable impotence is to suggest the most impossible of things. What he craves is to be consoled in his very powerlessness, to feel that the spirit of the universe recognizes and secures him, all decaying and failing as he is.

Success or failure depends more upon attitude than upon capacity successful men act as though they have accomplished or are enjoying something. Soon it becomes a reality. Act, look, feel successful, conduct yourself accordingly, and you will be amazed at the positive results.

... 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.