Our trouble is not ignorance, but inaction.

Flaming enthusiasm, backed up by horse sense and persistence, is the quality that most frequently makes for success.

If you are wrong, admit it quickly and emphatically.

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

Happiness is largely an attitude of mind, of viewing life from the right angle.

If you want to know how to make people shun you and laugh at you behind your back and even despise you, here is the recipe: Never listen to anyone for long. Talk incessantly about yourself. If you have an idea while the other person is talking, don't wait for him or her to finish: bust right in and interrupt in the middle of a sentence.

You and I are standing this very second at the meeting place of two eternities: the vast past that has endured forever, and the future that is plunging on to the last syllable of recorded time. We can't possible live in either of those eternities - no, not even for a split second. But, by trying to do so, we can wreck both our bodies and our minds. So let's be content to live the only time we can possible live: from now until bedtime.