It is better to have faith in everybody and be deceived occasionally than to mistrust everybody and be deceived almost constantly.

When your thinking is brilliant, you will be brilliant, but if your thinking is not brilliant you will not be brilliant, no matter how brilliant you may think you are.

PROMISE YOURSELF To make all your friends feel that there is something in them.

The average person is full of artificial desires, desires that have been suggested by what other people possess or require.

Make your optimism come true.

It is better to have faith in everybody and be deceived occasionally than to mistrust everybody and be deceived almost constantly.

Whenever you appreciate a certain thing you become conscious of its real quality, and whenever you become conscious of the quality of anything, you begin to develop that quality in yourself. When we appreciate the worth of a person, we tend to impress the idea of that worth in our own minds, and thereby cause the same effect to be produced, in a measure, in ourselves.