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

It seems the natural thing for us to listen whilst the Europeans talk.

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.

Another example of the educational inequality is the current debate over publicly financed school vouchers which will provide educational opportunities to a privileged handful, but deprive public schools of desperately needed resources.

To teach a man how he may learn to grow independently, and for himself, is perhaps the greatest service that one man can do another.

When you’re buying a pair of TOMS, if you don’t feel like you’re part of a community, then I’ve failed.

Sociologists well understand that chaos at home causes violent behavior, educational failure and social alienation among children.

Service standards keep rising. As competitors render better and better service, customers become more demanding. Their expectations grow.

The main thing is to care. Care very hard, even if it is only a game you are playing.

The Metropolitan Police Service is still, despite what people think, a working-class organisation and as such rejects totally the notion of an officer class.

The biggest atrocity of all is to indoctrinate our children into a system that does not value their creative expression, nor encourage their unique abilities.