When we have accepted the worst, we have nothing more to lose. And that automatically means we have everything to gain.

An argument would have begun to steam and boil and sputter - and you know how arguments end. Even if I had convinced him that he was wrong, his pride would have made it difficult for him to back down and give in.

Keep your mind open to change all the time. Welcome it. Court it. It is only by examining and reexamining your opinions and ideas that you can progress.

If you believe in what you are doing, then let nothing hold you up in your work.

The man who grasps an opportunity as it is paraded before him, nine times out of ten makes a success, but the man who makes his own opportunities is, barring an accident, a sure-fire success

It never hurts a fool to appear before an audience, for his capacity is not a capacity for feeling.

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