Give your problem all the thought you possibly can before a solution is reached. But when the matter is settled and over with, worry not at all.

Appreciation is the legal tender that all souls enjoy.

If you want to gather honey, don't kick over the beehive.

People are not interested in you. They are not interested in me. They are interested in themselves - morning, noon and after dinner.

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

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.

John Wanamaker, founder of the stores that bear his name, once confessed: "I learned thirty years ago that it is foolish to scold. I have enough trouble overcoming my own limitations without fretting over the fact that God has not seen fit to distribute evenly the gift of intelligence.