Millions of people have wrecked their lives in angry turmoil, because they refused to accept the worst; refused to try to improve upon it; refused to salvage what they could from the wreck. Instead of trying to reconstruct their fortunes, they engaged in a bitter and "violent contest with experience"- and ended up victims of that brooding fixation known as melancholia.

There is only one excuse for a speaker's asking the attention of his audience: he must have either truth or entertainment for them.

Good leaders are scarce; so I'm following myself.

So if you aspire to be a good conversationali st, be an attentive listener.

Don't ask a man what is important to him. Watch how he spends his time

One of the most tragic things I know about human nature is that all of us tend to put off living.

One of the most appalling comments on our present way of life is that at one time half of all the beds in our hospitals were reserved for patients with nervous and mental troubles, patients who had collapsed under the crushing burden of accumulated yesterdays and fearful tomorrows. Yet a vast majority of those people would be walking the streets today, leading happy, useful lives — if they had only heeded the words of Jesus: “Have no anxiety about the morrow”; or the words of Sir William Osler: "Live in day-tight compartments."