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

If you want to be happy, set yourself a goal that commands your thoughts, liberates your energy and inspires your hopes. Happiness is within you. It comes from doing some certain thing into which you can put all your thought and energy. If you want to be happy, get enthusiastic about something.

My popularity, my happiness and sense of worth depend to no small extent upon my skill in dealing with people.

Three-fourths of the people you will ever meet are hungering and thirsting for sympathy. Give it to them, and they will love you.

Fear doesn't exist anywhere except in the mind.

Every day I pray. I yield myself to God and the tensions and anxieties go out of me and peace and power come in.

If you want to be a good conversationalist, be a good listener. To be interesting, be interested.