arouse in the other person an eager want. He who can do this has the whole world with him. He who cannot walks a lonely way.

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

If we rail and kick against it and grow bitter, we won't change the inevitable; but we will change ourselves. I know. I have tried it. I once refused to accept an inevitable situation with which I was confronted. I played the fool and railed against it, and rebelled. I turned my nights into hells of insomnia. I brought upon myself everything I didn't want. Finally, after a year of self-torture, I had to accept what I knew from the outset I couldn't possible alter.

The expression a woman wears on her face is far more important than the clothes she wears on her back.

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.

The essence of all art is to have pleasure in giving pleasure.

Once I did bad and that I heard ever. Twice I did good, but that I heard never.