The ability to speak well is the shortcut to distinction.

If you increase your success by even a mere 10 percent, you have become 10 percent more effective as a leader than you were before.

If we want to make friends, let's greet people with animation and enthusiasm.

If you want others to like you, if you want to develop real friendships, if you want to help others at the same time as you help yourself, keep this principle in mind: Become genuinely interested in other people.

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.

Our trouble is not ignorance, but inaction.

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