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

if you want to keep happiness , you have to share it !

Personally I am very fond of strawberries and cream, but I have found that for some strange reason, fish prefer worms. So when I went fishing, I didn’t think about what I wanted. I thought about what they wanted. I didn't bait the hook with strawberries and cream. Rather, I dangled a worm or grasshopper in front of the fish and said: "Wouldn't you like to have that?" Why not use the same common sense when fishing for people?

I honestly believe that this is one of the greatest secrets to true peace of mind -- a decent sense of values. We could annihilate 50 percent of all our worries at once if we would develop a sort of private gold standard -- a gold standard of what things are worth to us in terms of our lives.

Don't fuss about trifles. Don't permit little things-the mere termites of life-to ruin your happiness.

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

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