If we want to find happiness, let's stop thinking about gratitude or ingratitude and give for the inner joy of giving.

If you argue and rankle and contradict, you may achieve a victory sometimes; but it will be an empty victory because you will never get your opponent's good will.

Merely stating a truth isn't enough. The truth has to be made vivid, interesting, dramatic. You have to use showmanship.

If you can be sure of being right only 55 percent of the time, you can go down to Wall Street and make a million dollars a day. If you can't be sure of being right even 55 percent of the time, why should you tell other people they are wrong?

The ability to speak well is the shortcut to distinction.

Do things for others and you'll find your self-consciousness evaporating like morning dew.

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