By all means take thought for the tomorrow, yes, careful thought and planning and preparation. But have no anxiety.

If you got it, ask yourself why and try to repeat the action. If you failed, ask yourself why and try to learn from the experience.

One of the most tragic things I know about human nature is that all of us tend to put off living.

Don't fuss about trifles. Don't permit little things-the mere termites of life-to ruin your happiness.

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

Your purpose is to make your audience see what you saw, hear what you heard, feel what you felt. Relevant detail, couched in concrete, colorful language, is the best way to recreate the incident as it happened and to picture it for the audience.

The trouble with most of us is that we keep our eyes closed to opportunities that thrust themselves at us; and rare is the man who searches for his opportunity or sees one even when he stumbles over it.