“Cowardice, as distinguished from panic, is almost always simply a lack of ability to suspend the functioning of the imagination.”

“Most people who fail in their dream fail not from lack of ability but from lack of commitment.”

“The worship of reason is arrogance and betrays a lack of intelligence. The rejection of reason is cowardice and betrays a lack of faith.”

“Ignorance is not a simple lack of knowledge but an active aversion to knowledge, the refusal to know, issuing from cowardice, pride or laziness of mind.”

“The young have the ability, but lack the wisdom, and the old have the wisdom, but lack the ability.”

“The ability to make love frivolously is the chief characteristic which distinguishes human beings from the beasts.”

“The last child is always loved by the parents, simply because he has the ability to imitate and learn from those who saw the sun before him.”

“As an instructor, you must be able to distinguish between poor performance caused by lack of ability or aptitude on the part of the student and poor performance caused by lack of effort. You should treat the first with patience and the latter with firmness. You must never apply sarcasm and ridicule.”

“Imagination in poetry, as distinguished from mere fancy is the transfiguring of the real or actual to the ideal.”

“By the term functionalism, considered as a principle of organization, we mean the differentiation or distinction between kind of duties. Thus it is clearly distinguished from the scalar principle, in which there is also differentiation, but of quite another kind. The scalar differentiation refers simply to degrees or gradations of authority.”