The exercise of prayer, in those who habitually exert it, must be regarded by us doctors as the most adequate and normal of all the pacifiers of the mind and calmers of the nerves.

The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitudes.

A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices.

The deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated.

Whenever two people meet, there are really six people present. There is each man as he sees himself, each man as the other person sees him, and each man as he really is.

Most unhappiness is caused because people listen to themselves... instead of talking to themselves.

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

If you can change your mind, you can change your life.

Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.

You can alter your life by altering the state of your mind.

Real servants don't try to use God for their purposes. They let God use them for His purposes.

When the magistrate says 'That's not a good enough reason my man.' He said 'Excuse me, could I ask you? Have you taken an oath of allegiance to the Monarch?'

Noble have I created thee, yet thou hast abased thyself. Rise then unto that for which thou wast created.

A truly great man never puts away the simplicity of a child.

Keep out of your mind, and out of your office, and out of your world, every element that seeks admittance with no definite, helpful, useful end in view.

The business of thinking ... undoes every morning what it had finished the night before.

The road goes ever on and on

There are three classes of men; the retrograde, the stationary and the progressive.

The self is not something ready-made, but something in continuous formation through choice of action.

Do you think your mother and I should have lived comfortably so long together, if ever we had been married? Baggage!

I think I could turn and live with animals, they are so placid and self-contained, I stand and look at them long and long.