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

Touch is the alpha and omega of affection.

Nothing is so fatiguing as the eternal hanging on of an uncompleted task.

New habits can be launched.

It is our attitude at the beginning of a difficult task which, more than anything else, will affect its successful outcome.

A man has as many social selves as there are individuals who recognize him.

Anything you may hold firmly in your imagination can be yours.

In all primary school work the principle of multiple impressions is well recognized.

We want all our friends to tell us our bad qualities; it is only the particular ass that does so whom we can’t tolerate.

The education of attention would be an education par excellence

The ultimate test of what a truth means is the conduct it dictates or inspires.

An act has no ethical quality whatever unless it be chosen out of several all equally possible.

It is only by risking our persons from one hour to another that we live at all.

One of the greatest discoveries of our time is that a man can alter the state of their life by altering the state of their mind.

I don’t sing because I’m happy; I’m happy because I sing.

The great use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it.

That which is most personal, is most interesting.

Just because there’s a trillion places to put an idea doesn’t mean you don’t need an idea in the first place

Ambition makes more trusty slaves than need

Put simply, the rich pay a lot of taxes as a total percentage of taxes collected, but they don’t pay a lot of taxes as a percentage of what they can afford to pay, or as a percentage of what the government needs to close the deficit gap.

I drag a lot of stuff round with me that I don’t need.

I think for me, home needs to be a sanctuary. I need to feel like I’ve escaped the day when I get home.

You know how misleading an image is. You see an image in the newspaper, if they left the caption off, good luck knowing what’s going on. There is something inherently misleading about images, so they need annotation.

In fact, the world needs more nerds.

All that we can’t say is all we need to hear.