Remember happiness doesn't depend upon who you are or what you have; it depends solely on what you think.

John Wanamaker, founder of the stores that bear his name, once confessed: "I learned thirty years ago that it is foolish to scold. I have enough trouble overcoming my own limitations without fretting over the fact that God has not seen fit to distribute evenly the gift of intelligence.

Knowledge isn’t power until it is applied.

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?

Great speakers are not born, they're trained.

Create accomplishment from disappointments. Demoralization and disappointment are two of the surest going stones to achievement.

Any fool can criticize, condemn and complain - and most fools do. But it takes character and self control to be understanding and forgiving.