If you want to be a good conversationalist, be a good listener. To be interesting, be interested.

Don't you have much more faith in ideas that you discover for yourself than in ideas that are handed to you on a silver platter?

When we hate our enemies, we are giving them power over us: power over our sleep, our appetites, our blood pressure, our health, and our happiness.

Forget yourself by becoming interested in others. Do every day a good deed that will put a smile of joy on someone's face.

How often we all have heard speakers begin by calling the attention of the audience to their lack of preparation or lack of ability. If you are not prepared, the audience will probably discover it without your assistance.

Your smile is a messenger of your goodwill.

You can sing only what you are. You can paint only what you are. You must be what your experiences, your environment, and your heredity have made you. For better or for worse, you must play your own little instrument in the orchestra of life.