The words "Think and Thank" are inscribed in many of the Cromwellian churches of England. These words ought to be inscribed in our hearts, too: "Think and Thank". Think of all we have to be grateful for, and thank God for all our boons and bounties.

Your purpose is to make your audience see what you saw, hear what you heard, feel what you felt.

Do you remember the things you were worrying about a year ago? How did they work out? Didn't you waste a lot of fruitless energy on account of most of them? Didn't most of them turn out all right after all?

People rarely succeed unless they have fun in what they are doing.

Most of us have far more courage than we ever dreamed we possessed.

Don't be afraid of enemies who attack you. Be afraid of the friends who flatter you.

There are four ways, and only four ways, in which we have contact with the world. We are evaluated and classified by these four contacts: what we do, how we look, what we say, and how we say it.