Learning is an active process. We learn by doing.. Only knowledge that is used sticks in your mind.

Only the prepared speaker deserves to be confident.

when the fierce, burning winds blow over our lives-and we cannot prevent them-let us, too, accept the inevitable. And then get busy and pick up the pieces.

If you do the little jobs well, the big ones will tend to take care of themselves.

Instead of worrying about what people say of you, why not spend time trying to accomplish something they will admire.

Let the winds of enthusiasm sweep through you. Live today with gusto.

Millions of people have wrecked their lives in angry turmoil, because they refused to accept the worst; refused to try to improve upon it; refused to salvage what they could from the wreck. Instead of trying to reconstruct their fortunes, they engaged in a bitter and "violent contest with experience"- and ended up victims of that brooding fixation known as melancholia.