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

The perfect stillness of the night was thrilled by a more solemn silence. The darkness held a presence that was all the more felt because it was not seen. I could not any more have doubted that HE was there than that I was. Indeed, I felt myself to be, if possible, the less real of the two.

As a rule reading fiction is as hard to me as trying to hit a target by hurling feathers at it. I need resistance to celebrate!

The mind, in short, works on the data it receives very much as the sculptor works on his block of stone.

Since you make evil or good by your own thoughts, it is your ruling of your thoughts which proves to be your principal concern.

Ninety-nine hundredths or, possibly, nine hundred and ninety-nine thousandths of our activity is purely automatic and habitual, from our rising in the morning to our lying down each night.

Most people never run far enough on their first wind to find out they've got a second.