Applause is a receipt, not a bill.

I realize now that people are not thinking about you and me or caring what is said about us. They are thinking about themselves-before breakfast, after breakfast, and right on until ten minutes past midnight. They would be a thousand times more concerned about a slight headache of their own than they would about the news of your death or mine.

Good speakers usually find when they finish that there have been four versions of the speech: the one they delivered, the one they prepared, the one the newspapers say was delivered, and the one on the way home they wish they had delivered.

Nobody is more persuasive than a good listener

If you can be kind and considerate for one day, then you can be for another. It won't cost you a penny in the world. Begin today.

We can't win friends with a scowling face and an upbraiding voice.

If you want to conquer fear, don't sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy.