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

“The sway of alcohol over mankind is unquestionably due to its power to stimulate the mystical faculties of human nature, usually crushed to earth by the cold facts and dry criticisms of the sober hour.”

“To suggest personal will and effort to one all sicklied o'er with the sense of irremediable impotence is to suggest the most impossible of things. What he craves is to be consoled in his very powerlessness, to feel that the spirit of the universe recognizes and secures him, all decaying and failing as he is.”

“Procrastination is attitude's natural assassin. There's nothing so fatiguing as an uncompleted task”

“There are two lives, the natural and the spiritual, and we must lose the one before we can participate in the other.”

“Religion is a monumental chapter in the history of human egotism.”

“Human beings, by changing the inner attitudes of their minds, can change the outer aspects of their lives.”