To change one's life: Begin now. Be bold. No exceptions. - William James

The great thing, then, in all education, is to make our nervous system our ally instead of our enemy.

We are spinning our own fates, good or evil, and never to be undone. Every smallest stroke of virtue or of vice leaves its never so little scar. ...Nothing we ever do is, in strict scientific literalness, wiped out.

[T]hings are impressed better by active than by passive repetition. ...[I]t pays better to wait and recollect by an effort from within, than to look at the book again.