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

Nothing else so inspires and heartens people as words of appreciation. You and I may soon forger the words of encouragement and appreciation that we utter now, but the person to whom we have spoken them may treasure them and repeat them to themselves over a lifetime

If you are not in the process of becoming the person you want to be, you are automatically engaged in becoming the person you don't want to be.

Whenever Roosevelt (Theodore) expected a visitor, he sat up late the night before, reading up on the subject in which he knew his guest was particularly interested. For Roosevelt knew, all the leaders royal road to a person's heart is to talk about the things he or she treasures most.

The way to defeat fear: decide on a course of conduct and follow it. Keep so busy and work so hard that you forget about being afraid.

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

Don't fuss about trifles. Don't permit little things-the mere termites of life-to ruin your happiness.