Great speakers are not born, they're trained.

You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you.

Remember that the people you are talking to are a hundred times more interested in themselves and their wants and problems than they are in you and your problems.

Criticism of others is futile and if you indulge in it often you should be warned that it can be fatal to your career.

The value of a smile... It costs nothing, but creates much. It enriches those who receive, without impoverishing those who give. It happens in a flash and the memory of it sometimes lasts forever. None are so rich they can get along without it, and none so poor but are richer for its benefits. It creates happiness in the home, fosters good will in a business, and is the countersign of friends.

When Theodore Roosevelt was in the White House, he confessed that if he could be right 75 percent of the time, he would reach the highest measure of his expectation. . . . If that was the highest rating that one of the most distinguished men of the twentieth century could hope to obtain, what about you and me?

Let's not allow ourselves to be upset by small things we should despise and forget. Remember "Life is too short to be little".