Three-fourths of the people you will ever meet are hungering and thirsting for sympathy. Give it to them, and they will love you.

Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get.

I can look back at my own life and see where a few words of praise have sharply changed my entire future. Can't you say the same thing about your life?

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.

We nourish the bodies of our children and friends and employees, but how seldom do we nourish their selfesteem? We provide them with roast beef and potatoes to build energy, but we neglect to give them kind words of appreciation that would sing in their memories for years like the music of the morning stars.

Become genuinely interested in other people.

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.