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.

I realize now that people are not thinking about you and me or caring what is said about us. They are thinking about themselves-before breakfast, after breakfast, and right on until ten minutes past midnight. They would be a thousand times more concerned about a slight headache of their own than they would about the news of your death or mine.

Get the facts. Let's not even attempt to solve our problems without first collecting all the facts in an impartial manner.

Merely stating a truth isn't enough. The truth has to be made vivid, interesting, dramatic. You have to use showmanship.

Let's fight for our happiness by following a daily program of cheerful and constructive thinking.

Tell the audience what you're going to say, say it; then tell them what you've said.

An old man was asked what had robbed him of joy in his life. His reply was, "Things that never happened."