The essence of all art is to have pleasure in giving pleasure.

I honestly believe that this is one of the greatest secrets to true peace of mind -- a decent sense of values. We could annihilate 50 percent of all our worries at once if we would develop a sort of private gold standard -- a gold standard of what things are worth to us in terms of our lives.

People are not interested in you. They are not interested in me. They are interested in themselves - morning, noon and after dinner.

Don't fuss about trifles. Don't permit little things-the mere termites of life-to ruin your happiness.

We all have possibilities we don't know about. We can do things we don't even dream we can do.

In short, we lose the freshness and spontaneity of true conversation. These are areas in which everyone interested in self-improvement will seek to improve.

Encouragement makes a fault easy to correct, and a challenge easy to take on.