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

To some of us the thought of God is like a sort of quiet music playing in the background of the mind.

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

Habit is a second nature, or rather, it is ‘ten times nature’.

Facts’ are the bounds of human knowledge, set for it, not by it.

We are thinking beings, and we cannot exclude the intellect from participating in any of our functions.

As long as there are postmen, life will have zest.

Where quality is the thing sought after, the thing of supreme quality is cheap, whatever the price one has to pay for it.

We with our lives are like islands in the sea, or like trees in the forest… But the trees also commingle their roots in the darkness underground.

If you give appreciation to people, you win their goodwill. But more important than that, practicing this philosophy has made a different person of me.

The ‘I think’ which Kant said must be able to accompany all my objects, is the ‘I breathe’ which actually does accompany them.

Earnestness means willingness to live with energy, though energy bring pain.

Experience, as we know, has a way of boiling over, and making us correct our present formulas.

With mere good intentions hell is proverbially paved.

Genius is the capacity for seeing relationships where lesser men see none.

Let everything you do be done as if it makes a difference.

If you want a quality, act as if you already had it.