Our mental attitude is the x factor that determines our fate.

Ask questions instead of giving direct orders.

Mix judgement with ambition and season it with energy. It makes a splendid recipe for success.

I've found that worry and irritation vanish into thin air the moment I open my mind to the many blessings I possess.

You must have a good time meeting people if you expect them to have a good time meeting you.

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.

Bitter criticism caused the sensitive Thomas Hardy, one of the finest novelists ever to enrich English literature, to give up forever the writing of fiction. Criticism drove Thomas Chatterton, the English poet, to suicide. . . . Any fool can criticize, condemn and complain - and most fools do. But it takes character and self-control to be understanding and forgiving.