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.

When the friendly jailer gave Socrates the poison cup to drink, the jailer said: "Try to bear lightly what needs must be." Socrates did. He faced death with a calmness and resignation that touched the hem of divinity.

Every day I pray. I yield myself to God and the tensions and anxieties go out of me and peace and power come in.

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.

If your own mind is muddled, much more will the minds of your hearers be confused.

Feeling sorry for yourself, and your present condition, is not only a waste of energy but the worst habit you could possibly have.

arouse in the other person an eager want. He who can do this has the whole world with him. He who cannot walks a lonely way.