“Think of yourself as on the threshold of unparalleled success. A whole, clear, glorious life lies before you. Achieve! Achieve!
“The object of a new year is not that we should have a new year. It is that we should have a new soul
“I am one of those who think like Nobel, that humanity will draw more good than evil from new discoveries
“At some future period, not very distant as measured by centuries, the civilized races of man will almost certainly exterminate, and replace the savage races throughout the world
“No one ever regarded the First of January with indifference. It is that from which all date their time, and count upon what is left. It is the nativity of our common Adam
“Every present state of a simple substance is the natural consequence of its preceding state, in such a way that its present is big with its future
“Trust no future, however pleasant! Let the dead past bury its dead! Act, act in the living present! Heart within and God overhead
“We study ourselves three weeks, we love each other three months, we squabble three years, we tolerate each other thirty years, and then the children start all over again
“All you have shall some day be given; therefore give now, that the season of giving may be yours and not your inheritors
“If you believe that feeling bad or worrying long enough will change a past or future event, then you are residing on another planet with a different reality system.