Great emergencies and crises show us how much greater our vital resources are than we had supposed.

There can be no existence of evil as a force to the healthy-minded individual.

To be fertile in hypotheses is the first perquisite of creativity and to be willing to throw them away the moment experience contradicts them is the next.

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

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

Actions seems to follow feeling, but really actions and feeling go together; and by regulating the action, which is under the more direct control of the will, we can indirectly regulate the feeling, which is not. Thus the sovereign voluntary path to cheerfulness, if our cheerfulness be lost, is to sit up cheerfully and to act and speak as if cheerfulness were already there.

Where is it, this present? It has melted in our grasp, fled ere we could touch it, gone in the instant of becoming.