Take stock of your fears now and see how many of them are senseless. If you are honest with yourself you will probably find most of them are groundless.

Flattery is from the teeth out. Sincere appreciation is from the heart out.

Our fatigue is often caused not by work, but by worry, frustration and resentment.

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.

It was this desire for a feeling of importance that led an uneducated, poverty-stricken grocery clerk to study some law books he found in the bottom of a barrel of household plunder that he had bought for fifty cents. You have probably heard of this grocery clerk. His name was Lincoln.

Talk to someone about themselves and they'll listen for hours.

Flattery is telling the other person precisely what he thinks about himself.