Talk to someone about themselves and they'll listen for hours.

arouse in the other person an eager want. He who can do this has the whole world with him. He who cannot walks a lonely way.

Men of age object too much, consult too long, adventure too little, repent too soon, and seldom drive business home to the full period, but content themselves with a mediocrity of success.

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.

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.

The chronic kicker, even the most violent critic, will frequently soften and be subdued in the presence of a patient, sympathetic listener— a listener who will be silent while the irate fault-finder dilates like a king cobra and spews the poison out of his system.

I've found that worry and irritation vanish into thin air the moment I open my mind to the many blessings I possess.