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.

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

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.

For better or worse, you must play your own little instrument in the orchestra of life.

Speakers who talk about what life has taught them never fail to keep the attention of their listeners.

Every day I pray. I yield myself to God and the tensions and anxieties go out of me and peace and power come in.

The unvarnished truth is that almost all the people you meet feel themselves superior to you in some way, and a sure way to their hearts is to let them realize in some subtle way that you recognize their importance, and recognize it sincerely.