Naturalness is the easiest thing in the world to acquire, if you will forget yourself-forget about the impression you are trying to make.

Let's fill our minds with thoughts of peace, courage, health, and hope, for "our life is what our thoughts make it."

History has repeatedly been changed by people who had the desire and the ability to transfer their convictions and emotions to their listeners.

If you want others to like you, if you want to develop real friendships, if you want to help others at the same time as you help yourself, keep this principle in mind: Become genuinely interested in other people.

I once succumbed to the fad of fasting and went for six days and nights without eating. It wasn't difficult. I was less hungry at the end of the sixth day than I was at the end of the second. Yet I know, as you know, people who would think they had committed a crime if they let their families or employees go for six days without food; but they will let them go for six days, and six weeks, and sometimes sixty years without giving them the hearty appreciation that they crave almost as much as they crave food.

Monotony reveals our limitations.

Develop success from failures. Discouragement and failure are two of the surest stepping stones to success.