Why talk about what we want? That is childish. Absurd. Of course, you are interested in what you want. You are eternally interested in it. But no one else is. The rest of us are just like you: we are interested in what we want.

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.

Take a chance! All life is a chance. The man who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare.

Cash can buy, but it takes enthusiasm to sell.

If you want enemies, excel your friends; but if you want friends, let your friends excel you.

Any fool can criticize, condemn and complain - and most fools do. But it takes character and self control to be understanding and forgiving.

No one likes to feel that he or she is being sold some-thing or told to do a thing. We much prefer to feel that we are buying of our own accord or acting on our own ideas. We like to be consulted about our wishes, our wants, our thoughts.