If we rail and kick against it and grow bitter, we won't change the inevitable; but we will change ourselves. I know. I have tried it. I once refused to accept an inevitable situation with which I was confronted. I played the fool and railed against it, and rebelled. I turned my nights into hells of insomnia. I brought upon myself everything I didn't want. Finally, after a year of self-torture, I had to accept what I knew from the outset I couldn't possible alter.

All men have fears, but the brave put down their fears and go forward, sometimes to death, but always to victory.

You have it easily in your power to increase the sum total of this world's happiness now. How? By giving a few words of sincere appreciation to someone who is lonely or discouraged. Perhaps you will forget tomorrow the kind words you say today, but the recipient may cherish them over a lifetime.

I deal with the obvious. I present, reiterate, and glorify the obvious - because the obvious is what people need to be told.

When we have a brilliant idea, instead of making others think it is ours, why not let them cook and stir the idea themselves.

Forget yourself by becoming interested in others. Do every day a good deed that will put a smile of joy on someone's face.

Flaming enthusiasm, backed up by horse sense and persistence, is the quality that most frequently makes for success.