First ask yourself: What is the worst that can happen? Then prepare to accept it. Then proceed to improve on the worst.

An old man was asked what had robbed him of joy in his life. His reply was, "Things that never happened."

I want you to think of your life as an hourglass. You know there are thousands of grains of sand in the top of the hourglass; and they all pass slowly and evenly through the narrow neck in the middle. Nothing you or I could do would make more than one grain of sand pass through this narrow neck without impairing the hourglass. You and I and everyone else are like this hourglass.

Our fatigue is often caused not by work, but by worry, frustration and resentment.

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

Do the thing you fear to do and keep on doing it... that is the quickest and surest way ever yet discovered to conquer fear.

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