People like people who help them like themselves.

You are something new in this world. Never before, since the beginning of time, has there ever been anybody exactly like you; and never again throughout all the ages to come will there ever be anybody exactly like you again.

If you want enemies, excel your friends; but if you want friends, let your friends excel you.

Try to fix firmly in your mind what you would like to do; and then, without veering off direction, you will move straight to the goal.

Are you bored with life? Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours.

The only way to get the best of an argument is to avoid it.

Obviously, circumstances alone do not make us happy or unhappy. It is the way we react to circumstances that determines our feelings. Jesus said that the kingdom of heaven is within you. That is where the kingdom of hell is, too.