My popularity, my happiness and sense of worth depend to no small extent upon my skill in dealing with people.

When ill luck besets us, to ease the tension we have only to remember that happiness is relative. The next time you are tempted to grumble about what has happened to you, why not pause and be glad that it is no worse than it is.

A good deed, "said the prophet Mohammed, "is one that brings a smile of joy to the face of another." Why will doing a good deed every day produce such astounding efforts on the doer? Because trying to please others will cause us to stop thinking of ourselves: the very thing that produces worry and fear and melancholia.

The resentment that criticism engenders can demoralize employees, family members and friends, and still not correct the situation that has been condemned.

Encouragement makes a fault easy to correct, and a challenge easy to take on.

If you can be kind and considerate for one day, then you can be for another. It won't cost you a penny in the world. Begin today.

Remember my name and you add to my feeling of importance.