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“Children learn more from what you are than what you teach.”
“Your thoughts are powerful. Choose them wisely.”
“You cannot talk your way out of problems you behaved your way into.”
“Human nature is complex, but it is not unknowable.”
“We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.”
“I can calculate the motion of heavenly bodies, but not the madness of people.”
“Human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind.”
“The child is father of the man.”
“Unexpressed emotions will never die. They are buried alive and will come forth later in uglier ways.”
“The mind is like an iceberg, it floats with one-seventh of its bulk above water.”
“Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind.”
“Where the head goes, the body follows.”
“The great instrument of moral good is the imagination.”
“Men are moved by two levers only: fear and self-interest.”
“Words—so innocent and powerless as they are, become terrible masters of men.”
“Men are driven by two principal impulses, either by love or by fear.”
“Love is not a word; it is an action.”
“Conduct is three-fourths of life.”
“The novel is the best instrument for understanding human nature.”
“We shape our tools and thereafter our tools shape us.”
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