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

Give Honest and Sincere Appreciation.

Do the hard jobs first. The easy jobs will take care of themselves.

All men have fears, but the brave put down their fears and go forward, sometimes to death, but always to victory.

If we want to find happiness, let's stop thinking about gratitude or ingratitude and give for the inner joy of giving.

You can't win an argument. You can't because if you lose it, you lose it; and if you win it, you lose it.

Bitter criticism caused the sensitive Thomas Hardy, one of the finest novelists ever to enrich English literature, to give up forever the writing of fiction. Criticism drove Thomas Chatterton, the English poet, to suicide. . . . Any fool can criticize, condemn and complain - and most fools do. But it takes character and self-control to be understanding and forgiving.