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

So, to prevent fatigue and worry, the first rule is: Rest often. Rest before you get tired.

criticism is dangerous, because it wounds a person's precious pride, hurt his sense of importace and arouse resentment.

I can look back at my own life and see where a few words of praise have sharply changed my entire future. Can't you say the same thing about your life?

In order to make friends you must first be friendly

Naturalness is the easiest thing in the world to acquire, if you will forget yourself-forget about the impression you are trying to make.

Bitter criticism caused the sensitive Thomas Hardy, one of the finest novelists ever to enrich English literature, to give up forever the writing of fiction. Criticism drove Thomas Chatterton, the English poet, to suicide. . . . Any fool can criticize, condemn and complain - and most fools do. But it takes character and self-control to be understanding and forgiving.