Fear is the result of a lack of confidence. A lack of confidence is the result of not knowing what you can do. A lack of knowing what you can do is caused by a lack of experience. A lack of experience is caused by a lack of doing something new.

Your purpose is to make your audience see what you saw, hear what you heard, feel what you felt.

There is a certain degree of satisfaction in having the courage to admit one's errors.

I can look back at my own life and see where a few words of praise have sharply changed my entire future. Can't you say the same thing about your life?

When ill luck besets us, to ease the tension we have only to remember that happiness is relative. The next time you are tempted to grumble about what has happened to you, why not pause and be glad that it is no worse than it is.

The ideas I stand for are not mine. I borrowed them from Socrates. I swiped them from Chesterfield. I stole them from Jesus. And I put them in a book.

History has repeatedly been changed by people who had the desire and the ability to transfer their convictions and emotions to their listeners.