By fighting you never get enough, but by yielding you get more than you expected.

A good deed, "said the prophet Mohammed, "is one that brings a smile of joy to the face of another." Why will doing a good deed every day produce such astounding efforts on the doer? Because trying to please others will cause us to stop thinking of ourselves: the very thing that produces worry and fear and melancholia.

There is one all-important law of human conduct. If we obey that law, we shall almost never get into trouble. In fact, that law, if obeyed, will bring us countless friends and constant happiness. But the very instant we break the law, we shall get into endless trouble. The law is this: Always make the other person feel important.

Look your audience straight in the eyes, and begin to talk as if every one of them owed you money.

...Be grateful for what you have to be thankful for instead of complaining about the little things that annoy you.

Instead of worrying about what people say of you, why not spend time trying to accomplish something they will admire.

We move toward what we picture in our minds.