The person who seeks all their applause from outside has their happiness in another's keeping .

Believe that you will succeed, and you will.

Each nation feels superior to other nations. That breeds patriotism - and wars.

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

Talk to anyone about himself positively and he'll listen without interruption.

I want you to think of your life as an hourglass. You know there are thousands of grains of sand in the top of the hourglass; and they all pass slowly and evenly through the narrow neck in the middle. Nothing you or I could do would make more than one grain of sand pass through this narrow neck without impairing the hourglass. You and I and everyone else are like this hourglass.

Obviously, circumstances alone do not make us happy or unhappy. It is the way we react to circumstances that determines our feelings. Jesus said that the kingdom of heaven is within you. That is where the kingdom of hell is, too.