“With mere good intentions hell is proverbially paved.”

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.

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.

We never fully grasp the import of any true statement until we have a clear notion of what the opposite untrue statement would be.

Truth, as any dictionary will tell you, is a property of certain of our ideas. It means their agreement, as falsity means their disagreement, with reality.

The God of many men is little more than their court of appeal against the damnatory judgment passed on their failures by the opinion of the world.

We can change our circumstances by a mere change of our attitude.

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

Letters are something from you. It’s a different kind of intention than writing an e-mail.

Be with the people who have good intentions.

When you say you agree to a thing in principle you mean that you have not the slightest intention of carrying it out in practice.

When your mind and intentions are pure, you win either way.

Focus your intention on your dreams, you can wave magic when you set your heart and mind to it.

No one should fear to undertake any task in the name of our Saviour, if it is just and if the intention is purely for His holy service.

You know they’re a pure soul when it breaks their own heart to break another heart even unintentionally.

As long as your intentions are solid and about growth and progression and being productive and not being idle, then you’re doing good in my book.