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

Always have something to say. The man who has something to say and who is known never to speak unless he has, is sure to be listened to.�

It isn't what you have, or who you are, or where you are, or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy. It is what you think about.

There is a reason why the other man thinks and acts as he does. Ferret out that reason — and you have the key to his actions, perhaps to his personality. Try honestly to put yourself in his place.

Each party should gain from the negotiation.

People support a world they helped create.

Praise is like sunlight to the warm human spirit; we cannot flower and grow without it. And yet, while most of us are only too ready to apply to others the cold wind of criticism, we are somehow reluctant to give our fellow the warm sunshine of praise.